Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27d3088887fda3d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-07-22 10:43:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: f12c48f03f50ef10304b87490049e597 SHA-1: 63c971740526e8bf7d89204e6ca880db0c41e3b1 SHA-256: 27d3088887fda3d74022700965827d53546fcc5b1863a60de9950785d8e20fd8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous links on potentially compromised sites suggests an attempt to obscure the true malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67eaf268b14269909b99ce17fc9f386f/bilipibekekew.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3010161f41a10e51c31bb8c7bf524e57/bizewezibaluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f1bfccd8ee1bd4c44da40b85ab04aaa/nigeronaxarosinixid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/76440043850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ff51f05fff33c08016ad2f715a37c99/vaxere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luingpyrex.cz/foto/Image/file/nefopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d08018f3bca---34922893434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stphilomenaonline.org/userfiles/file/xifamonofud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dchs1961.com/clients/871949/File/sajexamapiviliges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/jalerulujaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macap.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/6221577237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3dd03a1e603dbfc3725cfea153c5849/62012848184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/gagabewijizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc595ee61e---62506118388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e65dea95eeb83c144cd2cb2fb166a47a/nidejawabaruwidezadem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinhadventure.com/uploads/file/91925849509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/453816eef6a6d80c1fe037b02ac4b70b/zegijil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://platcometals.com/images/file/gobivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607691ffdd38a---fumiferobuzonudarilakam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf25d15ae9---bezuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d45554033---61359329245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ae6c2a10a---zuwofarovoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=i+miss+you+more+than+life+justinPDF 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_off0000bf70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF70 15848 bytes
SHA-256: a6f002a2e62bd0c7059213f6f45dbadeb1b245741422a060e766b5664a5f2ed6
font_01_sfnt_off0000e877.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE877 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001008e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1008E 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 7b1ed4d338b29275ebdb03b62951de1090c0c01ceedcf249884fddaa3f5fd6ca