Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 275e392ee5d086ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:28:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 24a52fdd39f332535f858402dd63261b SHA-1: aed77f367e6937015b25eadf6423fccc248e8fc8 SHA-256: 275e392ee5d086caf31a137dfc9b403c07ab9a74861673a9584e97a7695a7fa3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+eggs+does+an+ostrich+lay PDF link annotation
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/duwopiteduzisuduke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/lalojoruxoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3c747e470a---81795914766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/7696566575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14840230554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/jitudeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/42378833601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnt52.ru/userfiles/file/simaleporerapupam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/46392191708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf417aa377---52050205583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/42758535147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allnatureint.com/userfiles/file/xexumovuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51357260460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2.net/contents//files/98251778373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biblioteka-koneck.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95809470152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3d54f625a8---34744863878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/63782594646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb5289092e97daa9f1f585d32e367341/51843979826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608649fc29a3c---powam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happy-travel089.com/CKEdit/upload/files/jakej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tevukasveza.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52007119607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86ff299d1307b2587c741e531da3a054/91983105680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab02fb140e---sexowopiwesida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2717860109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travellerisland.com/files/defufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d55ae1f0ec---dusoragovofokajuxadeguges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naszymsladem.pl/upload/file/1798078219.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_off0000e088.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE088 17648 bytes
SHA-256: 81060cb11f9cb40e28a724c5957ed4a4a2ce162a527353f19c57ff924df64c20
font_01_sfnt_off00010e58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E58 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001266f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1266F 11008 bytes
SHA-256: b05017fc390a41d143eb32edf4b3b7a94c004fdde5c38cbc9a3249089b68e83b