Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0927f051a582d5c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:17:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8ed35238f9c8bef348722414ed9cf087 SHA-1: 718add1c27051b4a35b99a743a12cfa0be1804f5 SHA-256: 0927f051a582d5c369b80682818d68471b8eccd61287d3bec24ef86a35225782
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The presence of external URI heuristics further supports its role in directing users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=akai+lpk25+user+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c2ptqio8eo2id27lcjttdlnes/1086982967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insidethedigitaltrend.biz/userfiles/file/68035156422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612cdafb9963a---36502864871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecole.ru/text/images/file/9300394611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suthuytinh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/99673564073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3colorjazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/paxaduwelumavizerilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/escqatbocpc0e1l24elk6bphn2/rimifajofudesejobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/81390107411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa619cd059957b74564a72bc2d62f4e0/nisusefajekaribivido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/70859901186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3507148a2aadb3c03fb9f252097f6f8b/31244364858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/51618007290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0533bdab079a8da75b2b9fa7f54cf595/33015775079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/26907789280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarylaspalmas.orgdocumentos/file/81653408992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bba589d0bad---87408254570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d862912b970b3a405d1b278d00a16a67/83743003379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mertlakustika.cz/images/pages/file/86800624942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/joohd0mjtt4hmsb66j756n7dbn/gadejofixinodedovexap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bcslaw.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/ziwutefalokomavenemin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imotrading.com/images/userfiles/8405541022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823044dfea7---81940486234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793304d8312---40427314809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e8aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8AA 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 79beb92094b65798f45139a62d7e4d3bb1894b82e4b764bde3282fea9166a64b
font_01_sfnt_off00010107.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10107 18052 bytes
SHA-256: e50ebf17f61df690ae27f0e2e4e184a6a959ebbf7cbea5c132ae6a2b9cb7d986
font_02_sfnt_off00012fd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1