Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb47683080b00350…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-07 20:15:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 96142b002350cc798edd36c7932e7868 SHA-1: 24e23e9ad28250f09b092ffefda381d3fa61735d SHA-256: fb47683080b00350f05a4716d1112636898242c9798ba601a06b5b486a83a5c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b670667ed164f1d1f9916344a2f40f4b/wenipu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abbe3bb362dcb4f2cc88ef97880c09fa/27901712071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/478a5bb1fdd80c48ec23e7c5f049bd85/10088466320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4efd48b8f---45059245402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fd5498c626fef92b193e23695301a57/58682760814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098ea3875300---78135348908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sjvqf7tgilph04p0ntevp8hkri/zufebuxubegifejujebumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4a9d6039c---generepemamikupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8d7fb39ad4---mupujukateb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemiigori.com/uploads/file/42928067830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be8d53e498b---49759551247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/puvegaxazixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtjjt.com/2013/upload/article/files/210704024828604298u8d4w.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carrieres-pierre.com/userfiles/file/35310191762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waroproject.com/file/gefowamujarobigex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712ad39d01d---sotojiruramogazuwafelig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4029c2c159ec17bec448ae61ec6f0a7/42317377991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76ad415aed8645561234d4f1ed8e36ab/zogovixevojejojufutux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/53410586022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68d9d4a377499038e7ff4214c9ea675c/80055976671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6r2mrdm9hcbaip8pgdh1k2lho/93942642397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e97364a381c6d92345458debedddfbc0/59751499660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://txextremecarts.com/userfiles/file/wanofexozuvunopivegape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=osso+bucco+bisonPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ecf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001050a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1050A 9952 bytes
SHA-256: 6b925f092c7712e3f1935a444fa7a6c7df3d0dca454513922cac1464b3c67aa7
font_02_sfnt_off00011b25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B25 18016 bytes
SHA-256: abc5bf0dc1cf292d9da9f6abc2a08f042c1efb6248daab2ad3ec7ac3e836deec