Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27ac5a19918906dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 11:12:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 0b467f15e6f017e1d5af25bc1fc3536e SHA-1: d1c53928ec8f49657ce1014be13f6c7263d91578 SHA-256: 27ac5a19918906dccdeafae1c8a7f3c9193f3376dedca38ad40f5aa6743d915f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites hosted on disposable domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://samtekelektrik.com/files/94012054956.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://belretail.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40827406425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vilus.cz/userfiles/file/1568729204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-pisanie-prac.pl/famprojekt_z_serwera/images/file/xupuguwowijero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakov.hu/_user/file/81336933321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriramsteels.in/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41465264119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/3108022204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f94cbaf29e---sokidaxojesojikonureduzum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationalherbo.com/userfiles/file/73564574536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firesystem.ro/imagini_ws/dinawenexilifora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eviljoy.com/UserFiles/File/sareburugumexiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariagoitese.it/userfiles/files/99034929169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandipmallick.com/fckimages/file/linitenixososajem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3mpthcq79192mhja2f54dagu3g/jisidevufizipax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupementpecheduloir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57230212515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cd2b67097d---21956236523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-stv.ru/userfiles/files/jibumofazipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-line.ca/fck_upload/file/febewanojizaneviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studioconcept-stand.com/fck_userfiles/file/63364515962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neonatal-surgery.ru/userfiles/files/vepenewikuwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/32852300140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myagenda.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/36791707758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariondhuique-mayer.com/data/file/87588814368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piemonteforyou.it/userfiles/file/virinozoxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=parris+jeyaraj+hd+moviePDF 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_off0000d37d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD37D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB94 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 781c197973dd4a52db1279cc73b8230da2286cd13706ce62529d78d9d4e34418
font_02_sfnt_off000103a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103A6 17344 bytes
SHA-256: a45463c2bb40cea7a624c9ea138bc30be4ffd38709ee99bbe7e632761c2c7e18