Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27a6edd62d3ddad8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:07:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fb1141910937b327b8249bd4f409bcf3 SHA-1: 5a08008f5b2d91f3928ea783e83d8b0e1c6c0c24 SHA-256: 27a6edd62d3ddad847ede807126a672604e55d50ab9070cfa31c797c5f645a65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely serves as a phishing or malware distribution vector. The file contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm to lure victims to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links points to a tactic of redirecting users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cats+with+too+many+toes
    • http://mrsjamesirvine.com/clients/82887/File/34551917235.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b450c62bdc---69443769797.pdf
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2400382d2e4ef109d6a29bed25e944a7/zajafisi.pdf
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a8836117a---redutulodoligi.pdf
    • http://oryginalnedekoracje.pl/userfiles/file/mubanitazofasigukig.pdf
    • http://shsclassof1959.com/clients/a/a7/a7a82b2a6025f7fafce5d77be70bf845/File/19422977788.pdf
    • http://www.halpellet.hu/userfiles/files/55786599212.pdf
    • http://alicekhenrylawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/41408213559.pdf
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/wiwuf.pdf
    • http://villabrown.it/userfiles/files/1598458833.pdf
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bad865d4928---towedepu.pdf
    • https://aeternoplanning.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6272360962.pdf
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/st8mpkdbidgiv203hgonqaiqk5/gevelopisujuvoke.pdf
    • http://irishvaughans.com/clients/7/7c/7cfe0b8ff6d5e3136a6575a9b258a09c/File/kofenapuzedonuv.pdf
    • http://vogiantinhmach.com/media/ftp/file/gedejifolinikisisa.pdf
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/so16fcg7hose4lb1cshh4psdu5/nifotogonisedutitesadifuz.pdf
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bf4580449---buwevado.pdf
    • https://hondaotohaiphong.vn/upload/files/71417614300.pdf
    • http://limeitec.com/upfiles/editor/files/sadolebodaxutego.pdf
    • https://www.akilciilacdernegi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vinobaxeb.pdf
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c37ecb48980---50422421863.pdf
    • http://goldenpeak.it/userfiles/files/jifazofitatasaregadavo.pdf
    • https://marblobathware.com/app/webroot/img/files/wesewitugikide.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d402.bin
a2186eee0243e9c4601f3029442983eeb737bd73aa088e86c49b7e87c00d1a41
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD402 10460 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eba9.bin
e69c8a6d17fd5d1db8e65f74394b995749f3bcaddc3d330fad1a84302dd5b919
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA9 17544 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000118ab.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118AB 16792 bytes