Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 027f4891de252da4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-08-10 21:45:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 46fcf5b2e664af1e14bd5dfeab11e165 SHA-1: 08382ba31c72a1e1fc0afcbb12f407e37d2ce27f SHA-256: 027f4891de252da4e598fb942a2713c3aec721132257af407e9e6ebe17b6cca0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or downloads. The file's structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing campaigns that leverage compromised websites for hosting malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f39bd1a171---kibix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://beautifulmoda.com/userfiles/files/vojiworusepidipoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/datotodura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819bdd263a7---23361176554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089e1faf2600---lizoruwukepurogapen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc776ca044---24823929002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/zemedefafimeparutidobej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3colorjazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/39647432041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b9sqp6oqbquc9pjtq358mm1l2/38537425653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moto-bike.pl/userfiles/file/48975554259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kampusogrenciyurdu.com/file/bonunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colline-eternelle.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78339440128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hbphoto.ca/resimler/files/nofugizegeruralanitibupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4a07e6150e---kabusajozusilukiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anapro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kunuxafetajaniterabitabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bi-acaovo.com/upload/files/kegiraworejifidufopezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074380e395a8---pajuluwanofixijevinonif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c354086416b---61923969146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a1465a4567fa152872fb3e813c8c7f1/balafezifovew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee6b7215f17---90510401193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787f96c77ec---tajakuwoxugiwojesizer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solener.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gofifipulekepatobifed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/kapabufewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h3k9jjdiatsjlvhordeql9otn7/61994366019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npxbyy.com/wang3_3_10_27/Upload/Upload/file/2021531527266366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=nalayira+divya+prabandham+tamil+padalgalPDF 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_off0000e5be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5BE 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 32fad5285910af570c15cd203e2e5a8503090bc83aab190d987a8c3d4e895780
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD9C 16288 bytes
SHA-256: 9b136bb4c6cd9f42b28ac5300de980da8161fb363939d4592a5b990e01e75593
font_02_sfnt_off00012804.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12804 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1