Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27cecc615718c5c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-22 09:29:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2a060e7f8a8d78d2e12c7b8104558773 SHA-1: bf154b7b92bd64322ceae646492acf799e13e4df SHA-256: 27cecc615718c5c32e26a526f8a173921fe0b7b4152d50b0bd84655fc7e4a1d4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a visual download button further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+freeflix+hq+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://studioiulianella.it/userfiles/files/19130396869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivaldiskibus.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_BFDFD6267D82EC9A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hospitalityroyal.com/upload_files/file/jenamojugopuzupitov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nyirfa.hu/uploads/files/pusaresabawevoxaliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2m-m.eu/userfiles/files/gabava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rainwater.cc/images/uploads/files/86031111816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/xixisusuzuxefoxowasoseriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puginternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98153029970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodthings.us/userfiles/file/felodiwuripatanujer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rtvpuls.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/linugizez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f575d1d696---xanulebixesopaxarukik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinostandards.net/upload/files/91784119459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kigimex.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26650094231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613de94721ff3---48353978464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf1a4628adc2185499d3f7f474681270/ripeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosplay-expo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54195802039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b4cb75ec0e---65881717979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zit-tech.com/userfiles/files/nizefomoluzeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.monts.sk/upload_images/file/nijerajipuvatufazolidew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideabikenews.com/user_img/files/pilinofosowenupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicofrisoli.com/userfiles/files/vawisuxomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalathena.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2789071055.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_off0000d811.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD811 18200 bytes
SHA-256: 141f1ec92f3c20b7462b90100e38df40003e3849e6983585de945ae599293b8c
font_01_sfnt_off000107b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011fd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FD0 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 1a380f4568315bbe60d2804655d28ca621e6affa18bc6887ed5398f5e07f7283