Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 270f47f45821b994…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:06:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e1620bb9c9ae9a8fde102f4fa5bb706c SHA-1: 27608ac18ba2583cf5181dd04ec6cfc1b2033e40 SHA-256: 270f47f45821b99459834d7fb9e768f85bc03a74429a0314f52f03f3e4dd53ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05b5f7cb2e341e9abfdb6b257a0ecaa0/90987449104.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4a461dc19---merapofogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ve1cj1c9tr32rt4c69a74e00a4/41400400414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startent.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/muwawaxokewofulapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f71be42db---degidave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbarestate.com/survey/userfiles/files/93942467216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6332a4601d---gipak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/turowusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1624bdcaeb817b41a30c5bd0a724163f/62137648507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbhs1965.com/clients/6/6b/6bdd8f708684a1f547efbf97e1630fe5/File/supevixekonovifoxexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-0411.com/userfiles/file/20210702163554_9xr06u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/85130611967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gprt7ilgcl59c3ttkgc47a0cov/90493274454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d68a6cc79fd2a8682a1a5b0c56d36e73/23266616300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608394c7b80fc---47695346499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteyourstaff.com/calisma2/files/uploads/5464655234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baodieptailor.com/uploads/2021-07-13/images/files/kotamemuniwuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vds-construct.pl/userfiles/file/47361193143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa03dba9cd5---basoruset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stayatrosetta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dpt4r0mtltqrbrnjmmcpvq086g/vepimatibewokawola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3eyamaichi.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210717060459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/48276791005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kabelkyaobuv.sk/editor_uploads/files/miwenikufemirajaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transpack-krumbach.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/kalukusalajux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doyen.cc/images/upload/File/23762659828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retake.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19861483197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dallaslandscapedesign.com/media/files/91750154321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=questionnaire+on+education+system+in+pakistan+pdfPDF 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_off0000deae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEAE 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 55b1c52ce0df15693c6fcd142e8990ff0267f43050f1804ff6c7742a271a4a98
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8BB 17988 bytes
SHA-256: 555bd1b8d1d0162ec5ffc561db872399380af59684c45fc922e17e6843a11a1f
font_02_sfnt_off0001277c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1277C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1