Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27d8cbb241c7c22b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-07-10 06:24:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 5a96ddd75268257f14b1a293f68be161 SHA-1: 44ad9dbed9f938f1c741e66f7654619301dfe0ee SHA-256: 27d8cbb241c7c22b071311597f31c52ccd7ef2766b015b834538f256c08875db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm indicate a likely attempt to lure users to a compromised site, potentially for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9797

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://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2653bd2e1d81e2b0acfbbdd04442224/desakuxavumalazijo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096263940461---pefeguvibiwofuderune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e790a21b6---9221920583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/ralefabagavobib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/doguwutazumodewivaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17af393b5a78ea55b41377302aba54bd/31111185704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13a8i2u6nlv87ganl1ofmll36h/vovagimifipiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a9b983371---75634624775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3ecce90a7---16935628889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbdfdb104d9---69503365319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607902e9d7a13---wetusunozeletiwovuriwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vigiweb.cl/dinamicos/files/file/zagemewenubikivol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d5b0d5e395878644ff4373f563dab99/fudijuviwosezipewevuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b24680f076d---92850780729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98962ab45e4291bd0ac6cfcc10f7bf02/53819193022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2da5b4227082b82e7b421854c629cc9/53362739457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78b4b59fe86c895d20ac11bcc8f8fb9e/votenepologoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe83c9076c---16058530026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/jutelap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralindahigh1981.com/clients/866868/File/tipalefenureja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.com/imagenes/file/filuniwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29b7889898bc196fb2987c6dacbb32de/6398415847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a810a536c4ef4a253b9e2bee5b26e6c/13190985749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd680bcf53---55266081380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sca-kc.com/scauserfiles/files/50736115658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/643b0e934edde7da83d08b23ec1087d9/lifumoguwiwelof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=fly+me+to+the+moon+and+let+me+play+among+the+starsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off0000e4be.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xE4BE 19904 bytes
SHA-256: fb8dabc8071223b968f59597d33224a9ab0b1df5234f39f888ae6678feef4b25
font_00_sfnt_off0000bf50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF50 14728 bytes
SHA-256: 7918fe8a41648e63e3746429369fc1790ac0c3a473eb4bd788b23fc443fb4359
font_02_sfnt_off00010603.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10603 10836 bytes
SHA-256: bd0fa65c3cf9207487345b94d0c3eb8e4d3a67421999ce56a635aaacb64bd6fd
font_03_sfnt_off00011ea3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1