Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27967b569730e794…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-24 17:44:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d4eabeb250b9b0122b622e22b6ec071e SHA-1: 3e5e7c5d0f8b48987f9cc0b154de9ffba8cd5e91 SHA-256: 27967b569730e7944f09ad0fe51d867d854d519937b67b3d9df0398e8491e292
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure itself is also noted as having duplicate object bodies, a common obfuscation technique.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/74799839088.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b679ac5a4f7e270d6ec4faaa1d8d1439/28296964337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque.ville.deux-montagnes.qc.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19496387478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leadershipcareer.kr/fckeditor/_upload/file/47323278223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/sedanotulejixikidij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vngo-cc.vn/cooker/public/files/dibuzekokagikoxuruwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf3b91972c0---70570666061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/37999043199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omegapizza.net/uploads/files/50470153888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/jixazuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/81558185878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e930f7e271fbc6e1d3586ac46c80cbdd/dexogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/028c75f4fe460255e33ef83ca996bce8/dorejosefegekobegaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5e5dd5c6db---82750389504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/410c16dbb668c2831292a791189b759c/vagiwopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canavesiobruno-architetti.it/userfiles/files/51091463385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/gukararorijiweguxawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b59417bbeeb---48730511032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3rqj43otoi1ucq5hpsfrfpgkhq/49109268103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bmw-zona.ru/uploads/file/14411563708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=vizio+65+inch+tv+coaxial+cable+inputPDF 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_off0000f207.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF207 16612 bytes
SHA-256: 42642ebc7b71a96dcbaa19c343e61d3e9ae542e7e05849effd8d7eba42482f4f
font_01_sfnt_off00011d33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D33 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 72db169b97fad4b494a2ee917d658126f534a5f2a39d19fcfbdea7576bc83bd3
font_02_sfnt_off00013667.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13667 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1