Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27c98a77c4f89907…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.9 KB Created: 2021-08-10 01:55:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: ecb0f9e7209ab24c9ca652deee25fe9d SHA-1: 631a9d83986c74b2c6ca6ae26ae4c2071a1032de SHA-256: 27c98a77c4f8990741f574258b6cfc98e226cc24e7847b1a740ea85e1762e854
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+ph+of+vanicream PDF link annotation
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qlkeetjkcqrvb5sjtp0pu3fs00/zowizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optikametuje.cz/userfiles/file/43300519262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f885dfd7b15997c7dd995e4d8f1c7584/bixudufobilakulute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/90462781323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe0b2163b3---junavudifuxavikanigagaxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nbjtidigms541jn06jaabog5s0/19570860080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/xovik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f190d957db84cf92b0d039897cf844ac/gaserobuzivomaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/63517459493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i2pdd22uoneloqk1nb3nu5fd71/vugoxozepaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadmoor80.com/clients/866172/File/fametogojowozitixogitidef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb404170941f98b3781d338078bab3e6/48400007230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://controlsystemco.com/cache/fck_files/file/90062349981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://win-sonic.com/kida2018/ck_imgs/files/poxasilisunamafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usagimatur.com/files/others/xilupotewovanukulum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tencanpowder.com/d/files/vitotebin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607290dd70f37---92530209157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/33435981226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/23642193194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanwanderer.com/himalayan/userfiles/files/95034199494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jp-cable.com/d/files/17298259078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001081f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1081F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012036.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12036 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 0f1229d02aef67873d3482aa12f59427fd460a2f2afa9a897db1f57858f06c12
font_02_sfnt_off000138d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138D5 18508 bytes
SHA-256: 0a5731664b2b288ee6ce51f2d410093f55234b88ebc4ad0170b0cf0155103303