Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27617777836850f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-07-17 06:42:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 47e9ee2d47588d3c8db9426cb347b4c2 SHA-1: 3febb5985ed3751f899592ef1a870e9e065b6a0d SHA-256: 27617777836850f6ae8c4bba681a481aceacfbf11f83fecafd03e059c04a3a79
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other potentially malicious sites. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f23e3792b20---keverakunuxizedolo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608785d63fa75---musabodawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7i4ti7kcrnj2t5t861iutbv1m7/gogofuxixogulinedud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moonlightmontessori.com/upload/files/11921461833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a976a29487c6bc522075e79610f54b7/bemarazemow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lroundup.com/clients/d/d7/d7466da0ad72d96b64793f89c518a0d9/File/1244326793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dt2bc1107tsjhpo8bp0te52q4/gevowatipazaritumipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/096e9f35753a92597a95015b1a597f94/50993517513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a98ddca5452---biwajonuvixiwegumakisipot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd2c9009d62---rusowitigidaxedarixowiril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092c9ec57720---51363310278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d938b8c13a---44351726427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be56db4ea7f---38422229016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/tedosol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newgrids.com/userfiles/file/37495973122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30a696155f---85498452841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160988677a504f---77775965553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/612e95b3673ea3718d6a337037ecab19/woxumijovar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tischlerei-schlusche.de/sites/default/files/file/4071050513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b616132613c78d11a14b43c255401afd/13626222005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087ecc6c6f79---goxadepuxubupegetinegax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5671f66da5---10131107611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/65116345621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=coal+india+share+price+nsePDF 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_off000101e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101E1 17368 bytes
SHA-256: f76461902765e725070a7db44cbe7b1148ee9183f459c315f267dbf3627cabb9
font_01_sfnt_off00012f9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000147b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147B5 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 0dc7593ad859919348955694cbedbc3f26685393a4dff832c175b8574e6b8ef4