Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27784ac68104d6bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-08-05 08:13:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: aef84f86195eee94aa4ce63040a0da8b SHA-1: 11115d89254383a8ce33c80d79f199dc2378a76a SHA-256: 27784ac68104d6bfe4537c70d208fab3ef8ba977b490be02ea13b3f6ffb9312c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or downloader attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2ee6985d417e0f1b4f27b96afb2ee87/99358945026.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/dimufepufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d611f5cfce231ca2018eadbaf535a561/xomubakivakatigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dashoernerboot.de/userfiles/95216369438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c109d1f0a8e---55689580950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/fazagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogable.de/userfiles/file/gajaveletapejawipoguxafux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyorszol.hu/userfiles/file/ximib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5icg0u7pogdf7l68tltujadq3/marijizutiwafaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grawerlik.pl/userfiles/file/debazosozikene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansungsala.com/uploads/files/pexamasozumuwozimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16v16f6settr45laouck9dc7sd/fimofazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcurryproperties.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/24602466326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079963289ba5---73579480265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aafb0d58e9---41350398951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c1514c961---4753903784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j8ebcqncpq83c0bq3ufo9rigmu/vegiwemifomolusuxidet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/daxezasoxevapip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl_adresuserfiles/file/vigitunaduworozivatuneti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqs-group.it/userfiles/files/77567437813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b085d6e202---sezijitigafimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjjjsh.com/uploads/files/37641264703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f032f04e348c671bc8be47349ab35510/47159002875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=gta+vice+city+graphics+mod+2016+download+pcPDF 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_off0000f650.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF650 11728 bytes
SHA-256: 81974018ada12a5b70df1fc2a658648101d7edcb68c1646de5d2b2b109463a3d
font_01_sfnt_off00011213.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11213 17472 bytes
SHA-256: 8ef5ebab222e442479bc7c018d54dd2c4edc1100a80f5adabfdf150aed655be0
font_02_sfnt_off00013faa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FAA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1