Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 227fa44a2073e320…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 00:35:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 87e6a9b13274c47520f7df617aeb2621 SHA-1: 5013b310015a07e9d42de48e06700268b8d32bf6 SHA-256: 227fa44a2073e3208829f15381a548f62067b12172817c14d1ebb338c8c35b61
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or domains associated with link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+can+we+get+free+robux PDF link annotation
    • http://lukasikgroup.pl/Image/files/bugosojosarebokama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://61kidsclub.com/userfiles/file/93703337331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/79185128026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5291c0dd94f31e7e0e7be43095a34d5f/dotuperotofuwajoxozat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canoe.ro/Extras/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26457694969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/6305577128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designsdubaiukfashion.com/userfiles/file/51572028830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkontroll.hu/File/60941539284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://master-stroi76.ru/userfiles/file/jujedopojawosijokaxope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notariocprietoa.com/notaria/documentos/files/47508450648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vq4udu40evs5th8efc31dfakpq/50436221400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandegroup.net/files/86815036369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findingthegrey.com/userfiles/file/vetoripovuwonenijawumiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chip-chup.hu/upload/file/joravuwapezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132b0ee8b26b---pitetodugagekug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baby-daycare.com/uploads/files/202109071706125763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gnox.vn/upload/files/39444679960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simon-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lowukajonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srtprogetti.eu/userfiles/files/zejakuvuponotirazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abbma.in/admin/uploads/file/jofukupazufuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islenapuntos.com/campannas/file/23864133986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosurfest.com/userfiles/files/wakowagis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comitatoamiantovelodromo.org/userfiles/file/17286493842.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_off0000ca3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e24e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE24E 16904 bytes
SHA-256: fbed0f4f97915091d5be24a4de5d94604ead8d71a9f4855e67c030d9f6083714
font_02_sfnt_off00010deb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DEB 10624 bytes
SHA-256: d5ad5afcabd581171a034e53ea1c7b59e734e67203122aaf00ad587553a35fbe