Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 272eb5efa28d6e5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:46:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3f1749eeba886fb1b995a67be9a7d23f SHA-1: 2370b077486f4f64da619af87691fa99ea6b5942 SHA-256: 272eb5efa28d6e5d1eb511688c3180b6396a4c6ab01700b5a66b40184d8d7cd9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9896

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://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609197e68dac7---biwizalosenapogudasibiz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/kagejuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e33267dfc43---tapeluzuzuxegotoluzut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tkhomedeco.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210731053322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608251ebca4f9---wuvusozitejobaxilirep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e710c8f91f500c8669bcb624828b73e9/semetavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jechrina.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/tovusavixusumizise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2972bea4f46fc9332b5ec513cb5d0923/demufuzuzepupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h6rbsgkn9himpuai2ce7meoe0g/zalirivutudaxevasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a663acec886---80081929582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.firstpages.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/kuxefumojunujin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c51267956e1ef34e0378fe6b43acbe00/91338124619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.com/ressource/site-image/files/visiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boek.se/bilder_umeny/File/2463160701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8656009d8---48266578813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaff31539a9---jerulim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ac605e392---21983438584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coil.hk/upload/files/17139253241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krzczonowice.pl/gfx/file/11428857419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6973b2ab4b3f3f224480fba9dee0a500/87961140360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chelseacarpet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/uploads/5835898633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/igog78aunf409jgmfg3crkq8a3/fozokubotadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micro-churches.net/uploads/file/duwizubogugep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liberty67.com/clients/41815/File/nugozowiterit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29198101108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danielstrehlau.com/userfiles/file/xasezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=lord+of+the+rings+two+towers+scriptPDF 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_off0001414a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1414A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00015961.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15961 10732 bytes
SHA-256: f9fe2bb11d87a226c31b472d6cc5ede82c7d0317cad6a3ff4a74916007cccdc1
font_02_sfnt_off000171cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x171CC 18932 bytes
SHA-256: be4e786734e3dbc38f7b748fab26be66e673815743c766e9f57266c635899669