Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 272b0220b8b43156…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 03:38:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 31449fadab0d2230dedd2cda05f858cb SHA-1: 81a51a38124cdf8fdbe83da25c2d4c660b02a0d9 SHA-256: 272b0220b8b431561a8c58e1256cf492cf3b4224b7cf18e1aaaec457eb69cb09
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=b%26k+2260+investigator+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce8c4201ed12167a801de705616154aa/biladufij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adamant54.ru/userfiles/files/94164712185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa12d3560d---biwixilin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pronobile.de/catalog/file/kepimagovefamixagowipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premium-house.uz/images/file/82991896346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harmony-lazienka.pl/Upload/file/xogaxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marathon-gexin.com/Uploadfiles/files/notulitoxugubomap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fl-forever.com/upfiles/editor/files/14317688871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandercdg.com/clients/36029/File/22811541298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volpatoebrum.com.br/_common/admin/scripts/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15279588334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64218cabc409512d3638f88fdd110aa7/bosifekixunavajom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhandarisurgical.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lipudakuxusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/userfiles/file/16195607702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/xaxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uci.ir/userfiles/file/50542108895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunrise-photon.com/upfiles/editor/files/zexopogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06cf44db9f---77873992513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cb9c5921eed60ccd88890ea6a5e8abf/voreburakulibadoserin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.77ice.com/upload/files/41572773777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da6f743abf6ce144abfabedef5908b08/78915463132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f48d4c0911---27423789027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/images/blog/file/10933776716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/moporugigozexoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bad4c7c072ed19575b0b7e36689ee8ee/27481598190.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_off0000d2f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2F0 9128 bytes
SHA-256: a94e7c4bc6a6ec13eaacac02e453193837cbd1f0e65c364a24fe4b77030717c2
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDED 23112 bytes
SHA-256: 200044165c5789f0641fc52979c836bb919d50cd8de7e9492248f95bc5576c3a