Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2727efb6aca4a77d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-07-31 08:59:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 07f5bcf53d7f1524068f70f4331099d7 SHA-1: 7058e33aa615f6decc7c2ca11f46f2512dc7ae03 SHA-256: 2727efb6aca4a77d48f13c61f7be27559cc5d43ac5face99225908e5e5605885
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The primary goal appears to be directing users to potentially malicious or phishing content hosted on these numerous external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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=factorizacion+de+polinomios+por+factor+comun+ejemplos PDF link annotation
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/xupesogagetor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf0f729a32a---12842687514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurtoglumob.com/upload/file/68885948599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/mesaferulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32b800a6abc3d62b6ac8e1a0fc100fe1/93785787327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0af889b489db941f970cf7ea30173cc/5048306029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agroanaliz.by/upload/editor/files/32963902053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ildiko-szepsegszalon.hu/userfiles/file/fosiwuwurareliroxoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-1/20210501072138364129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a2b8214930---suluzez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winecellarkeeper.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/digixemalegegivideri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k56rgnogtcn640leljjvsrkhc3/87730031975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793b05c5093---gokinujawavunivunag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbxab3abskk3a2j.xn--p1ai/media/file/kenitaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096dd9320cb4---bofemimesozovij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa0e27e72b8acb8d78ff3089cd7849d2/pewokimumowagaregexaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/729757061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildungrice.com/fileupload/fckeditor/file/69403593395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607732ead1b89---zexirizovalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artpolinakuzina.ru/pict/file/51893908930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5n12fl2852a1mu6fptovj8eo6/81817043068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voziky-paletove.cz/mctree.cz/pictures/other/files/puxadatilotasazat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa80d660e53---nibegerafutovabumoz.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_off0001033e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1033E 17224 bytes
SHA-256: 435dc65ded4ded9c3b09ddec60932ac2639580db3c1b769e0741732a70359f42
font_01_sfnt_off00012f47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F47 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001475e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1475E 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 3ef95503f1c520df9857cb7524a028f41009baaec6376db1a61cb1077716d597