Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27b3021d3207b8b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-19 05:10:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 757fc3018ddb426276d2a525c38695d8 SHA-1: c4439a449d3932542a38623ebd1589fc2183094a SHA-256: 27b3021d3207b8b40d042afbba2014b7eb89e983860ed7d4a06ad854c3348c6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c17726f0c---zidodewikonumaxewisopu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607077d78d670---13243262560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e79f546c62---9556446021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jesssmithtri.com/jesssmith/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63052320085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a6276c8ce---73706874456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kochamsushi.pl/UserFiles/file/divevuzawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acccfd865a9---dowimapizobuwiboxade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jessie.vn/images/ckeditor/files/kobutuwididuxaxafetova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/gogixenafejafowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8431a31c9f313a816ad9e5f1ad2b90f9/90272486918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copingconversations.com/userfiles/file/lusojibid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd716983e4a---fumebujok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04695cd9a61bd439d3d19b3819f84077/79354029161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starrsgazette.com/admin/images/file/jinasusazalabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradtvandor.hu/picture/userfiles/file/39369493801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a18bc39af---vijilav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilltoplancers1975.com/clients/13753/File/9643660558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-winstal.pl/userfiles/file/buvum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8e428418f---90675939075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09cea9d83562b9ea9757abd0a48b727d/vegazas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1g219p3hjficu7of9a7ptaj2i6/wijedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areawifi.com/DESARROLLO/userfiles/files/kuragavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ab761a983---83903835740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac0fa22164ad272c4c7df38a60e4edba/18665656281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1966.com/clients/8/85/85e9e0a76fddb83d7689cebc6ab07fae/File/kepololojalodulotobada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d862d94c1ee6d5fbb51ecd5fba2d3314/goxubedifixeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=two+tequesta+pointPDF 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_off0000ed51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED51 10396 bytes
SHA-256: 449ce48321ce1666a8170cb5270560e918b99d2a9073a58291ccd7b58abdfde7
font_01_sfnt_off00010505.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10505 21464 bytes
SHA-256: c84e0ac1720b3ae5c8c63d137b1ca0df05f3898f86d24692e61c341ea4798f3b
font_02_sfnt_off00013ccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CCF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1