Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 273b8f330d2238ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-07-09 07:52:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8bee13183f0e303c2a8a88bef24aae24 SHA-1: 23f07e3baf2b716b398f7f7e14feec3c9f2c1b2f SHA-256: 273b8f330d2238ee3fb17b5bdc7f652330726846b89d29bd5b60e42a9b700e05
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely exploiting a PDF vulnerability or social engineering.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://dermalab.pl/userfiles/file/zuwixaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lveece6l890h2o4l4285eb1596/zelisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinashop.bg/files/nemudumokewulevezazevozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/76318794459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inncredel.com/uploads/87417595179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnc2.com/userfiles/file/nifufokovabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adilaltinsoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070bdafed08f---gilazukoturi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/84319363107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/jagenove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mqtd3sa6je25vsi8tdua801rns/86501948272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ea9fed8e1a5e64a6a754439f6089591/51478366332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t6pcefag6qnbs2vv9934vvffr3/mewovug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jta6o4jiffrtgf1rrjhiq4fg4p/71633506636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e706cb31ae---98595911036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltabi1k2uo2av9as9q467o22k7/44951483806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanga.asia/userData/board/file/jedemizuxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/papakawaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukgoobok.com/files/fckeditor/file/47124257548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dba7de2f42296e8906c38f81a4d95c35/poladigato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f97d3efaa2---dazaxemazalajibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160858ba9e9eac---20152939057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgpj.com/upfolder/e/files/20210618035447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/066ec640ce3ed83a7768b29e85f6ddcd/pofawirixugaselosalinoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc74426c5f52035215e6bb67fce607c7/xifamuwevefimoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c16122465---65950857487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=picture+of+clock+clipartPDF 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_off0000d130.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD130 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e947.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE947 10392 bytes
SHA-256: fd76b6c5b84bdfe01fdfb7c5abd4bf2e4d944286a1f65097dce79edbfe66b509
font_02_sfnt_off000100f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100F1 16368 bytes
SHA-256: e33883a93ecec788cb245e5021c2dd8b693acb698f419f355f2b3bb14b1f869b