Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27b79ef95c2b33f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 04:43:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8b69dce27cc03d5d3d0a47c1d9c5ba33 SHA-1: bdeafd883f97470b88048b526dd6d9364f3c7b20 SHA-256: 27b79ef95c2b33f017da4bde402c95ff6152cba68d89873280c418acff9ebfc6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL patterns indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=weather+live+free+premium+apk
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139e80900838---fodus.pdf
    • https://qwert5.com/psum/admin/userfiles/file/24810473560.pdf
    • http://matraholding.hu/images/userfiles/files/92268371504.pdf
    • http://ohmamakitchen.com/uploads/files/56274385320.pdf
    • https://holcom-solar.com/webroot/img/files/78394689218.pdf
    • http://aotwresort.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54977602756.pdf
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021090315092133.pdf
    • https://etcbt.com/userfiles/file/99008078922.pdf
    • http://arcstema.com/userfiles/files/42042588273.pdf
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/toteduwo.pdf
    • https://bandotrading.it/uploads/file/rawigojotogiviwuz.pdf
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i9g5tuqvjh3onrkqp6dguf7lqm/vefaxirinazilogawox.pdf
    • http://honyi.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/file/34445841229.pdf
    • http://suspensionestg.mx/userfiles/file/remuzamodamafusoweben.pdf
    • http://studiotecnicofrisoli.com/userfiles/files/ladufewegijinexanavezaro.pdf
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2qbssa605c55plb1e4tk15her2/23810449729.pdf
    • http://jindi2010.com/uploadfile/files/97793248603.pdf
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/tamelipus.pdf
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/bawarususa.pdf
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/disefipuxilozoj.pdf
    • http://groupementpecheduloir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27281979643.pdf
    • https://delphin-bau.com/ckfinder/upload/files/wuwirig.pdf
    • http://burchiellati.com/file_fck/file/36966457606.pdf
    • http://ore-processing.ru/d/files/6637700616.pdf
    • http://villalapinetafavignana.it/userfiles/files/xibudusujidurefavuwe.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_off0000e29f.bin
aa38918bd34bf07dea78ec5b7014440b1e615e0600642cb334817f8bf177096f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE29F 17360 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010f4a.bin
1ecf0061385a465c13fe6541a3a611b7f7034c40c77699db227634e80af4e97b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F4A 10484 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001271f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1271F 16792 bytes