Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 272a8d63f05667f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 02:23:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 766b7510b463720d492ca145b6bdb7eb SHA-1: 437d0882c195b85747ae8190bc7458df09973486 SHA-256: 272a8d63f05667f93bb7da6ab2fc6a8e8c0c4d7db43fc83ddb17f5e41186e902
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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=car+ecu+repair+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://cga82.com/admin/File/52836542946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog/file/16623545248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee8496c79cf---zipami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/buvitenifofuwudidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bedea07a8a9---rawapipofegili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d39f506334---mogerusolisadumepidul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismofattorialucciano.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bejevanuvelibetofawoxesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4afc29f25---37097622756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://younewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/zebotobipufagiresasepuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3f42c57c38---walawibosixevusajut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lphs-the60s.com/clients/5/5a/5a84a5cabe7f31a06b4bf99f7e1b7ad6/File/42988215160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivaldiroberto.com/img/files/mediafiles/file/nosur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/plc4i1vlj0n3n8h0s9ause573l/werudewadegaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnrealestate.in/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/39548972748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5924cff08f7d755f95b0a8451bd6abf7/19928138007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wovomovujiveviwokej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc2d38abed3ea29673ed34d6ba845d7e/5871379091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesushiscv.com/uploads/files/mixajekafojunez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcoderesearch.com/uploads/tawijinaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2860bc38cc---14854423532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethnicminorities.heephong.org/ethnicminorities/cmsadmin/ckfinder/files/32654118487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff0774eff94496651ee9ffe06df55848/52114816620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aatg4aaaddkhfhbf3evf.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/saxipeborerinugaxufamo.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_off0000d830.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD830 10208 bytes
SHA-256: d772450d24895ba2f94404c5003f554d12e802246e9f88ef7d943cac42d07857
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF24 17244 bytes
SHA-256: e7b59865ded9b004218ef19a311d26f4a4c70ac2d7f272f9df058f8cee2aa80e
font_02_sfnt_off00011bff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BFF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1