Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b27950c8da55c1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 08:15:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ef4c587baa783ed9f0a346dedd28f3a8 SHA-1: e47dcd2a8602a004f51f4ac8189a7d6f22472ec2 SHA-256: 1b27950c8da55c1a4d3c93fc6cef50e287d38dbffc19f42615babd0d0faec440
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious redirection.

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+2020+offline+games
    • https://deepex.hu/hirek/files/komarajokaxuf.pdf
    • http://bilateralmatters.org/userfiles/file/12492003501.pdf
    • https://aldwalia.com/userfiles/files/pegubi.pdf
    • http://js-space.de/userfiles/file/wupumogilomipapawozaz.pdf
    • https://wonkingchina.com/d/files/81062973634.pdf
    • http://harmonie-avion.fr/actualite/files/51683180856.pdf
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l94urc6a7nh3g4agrgg3in9ecd/44873415890.pdf
    • http://globalfeedindustry.com/upload/files/fexanijomutupomoboke.pdf
    • http://madiagranitosilano.it/userfiles/files/vetezeba.pdf
    • http://telecycling.org/files/file/93590494175.pdf
    • http://chapaconoticias.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/32421745634.pdf
    • https://carmelocuritiba.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dopukudopomabasoruborod.pdf
    • http://wamer.org/userfiles/file/zunelorugurota.pdf
    • http://oldadmin.k12cart.com/media/files/suletelebiperalawerowaxa.pdf
    • https://autoteam.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dixuxinanone.pdf
    • http://irinabailey.com/upload/files/72451774261.pdf
    • http://fjsxsx558.com/upload/files/80414206685.pdf
    • https://ismart99.net/upload/files/vozaxapoboxigu.pdf
    • https://tiemhoahaibara.com/data/dulieu/files/navabofexujuzaj.pdf
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p1inn5vagdsrkfjgbauq82hdqu/70067726620.pdf
    • http://susutour.com/userfile/file/pubudifuwapubalowamex.pdf
    • https://www.kuwaitpolyurethane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tizul.pdf
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/soborakaf.pdf
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d7f2b7870d---vimigipenujajemasime.pdf
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-9/file/71471950789.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f465.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF465 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010c7c.bin
ab6289eec5a83a6d901f88dd3b9fe5df74348eaed1f82f57d1a1110e2ea2a057
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C7C 10752 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001254a.bin
90c87fb4c24407cc1335e836b66e6e0c57b0b10e04e4e00f4e75ec21dc0ba87d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1254A 17168 bytes