Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc47eef42e80ee0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-07-17 21:35:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4d28aeaef705e70c169db2b629d951bd SHA-1: 6d13ba8c86480123f6263ad00675dfdd99c63da1 SHA-256: dc47eef42e80ee0aabff99ea74f3e000e65df348e026b386ea0c81d8b11c25e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9769

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090874ea91de---wibul.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1846b6a203f66e1b6db0944ea5ef16e/30097027097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.com/contents//files/zisemaziviledijuguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m9m9d95cjjivj014kqtpjhdhv0/66613092355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/3256926306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/54724998791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1a39b5d686---wakun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1etimi1ep60769hrpqfnoaea0/98633737074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/60320695679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c59813a4e2f---56603411669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/viph2d2r99310lmli7apujb28l/poxijowelizopesakudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32187555d61ca4b4c2ae9c3ee11429a3/55373720733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/vuzubevimadofuboze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaloffice.pl/fotki/file/totemuborazol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d1bdcaf08---22889754563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9873b6cbdde1ac735f7015f8962e3d4/kukov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/vumezipubezomubilenef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chroscina.com/userfiles/file/nawipatenegiginubumok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ma5m5mu1muuji698h5t4mo8cd0/luwiperibolumepazogazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhongresort.com/img/files/60541195844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/41840397055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a409811d768---korifofufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25787bf201666756a4a0f97e6da4f545/10224436954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/25175538625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/xijazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akita-inu.lv/www/files/files/99879385599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laweasy.kr/userfiles/file/jaziduli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=cave+troll+lord+of+the+ringsPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f3a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A8 10728 bytes
SHA-256: e9644f71507275474556e1d6082f896ec555d2bbfe83c5fd5d11db4c0d577fcd
font_01_sfnt_off00010c0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C0A 19360 bytes
SHA-256: cb623fbb853ee3827d5c895a50e22a69c10192b591cec51050c7c6dda6e9725b
font_02_sfnt_off00013d21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00015532.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15532 16832 bytes
SHA-256: 6ef9cc86a28cbbc4fa376d029d3104007497e799aa460cd6e23a304c16936dd2