Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27da65ba4743a572…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 06:55:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ba5834a4126deb146f57062f21266ce2 SHA-1: a13f40e417ae39ad2c5ab0dd4f5f91432717f221 SHA-256: 27da65ba4743a572936223e7a511e134630794acf976231668eb72b935b50ba4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to trick users into visiting these sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gis+tutorial+3+advanced+workbook+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://gbp.dropship-online.com/userfiles/files/37375585996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elrey-uslugi.ru/media/file/foluwabubumowege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanhebiotech.com/upload/files/wenarixejomaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haihengpharm.com/upload/files/84853527776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f6d095360a---72165337184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/61239552680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandp-engineering.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10290636355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehouseproduction.net/file/timuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f89152c837---50531692559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omegapizza.net/uploads/files/budefidid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139db99e4d24---bexoranivopiporuxekobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/userfiles/file/zozomumenexedawuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaaaikdebj9ccf1ayja1b5a3q.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/robavinux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quranday.org/userfiles/file/84083760083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarytattoomachine.co/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/2636194752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottuk-e.org/userData/board/file/5907436206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cu-hinothai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20608659047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sobateracota.ro/mm/file/23929099754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/40824261346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161431dfd3efd3---42112410212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spbi.cz/res/file/93391221400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electroagro.es/pub/files/bipodaxiwe.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_off0000c809.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC809 21868 bytes
SHA-256: 79a57692c611d3c12a0ca36ae45cc31a09b0e13b3d7c31294942229e7d41c611
font_01_sfnt_off00010004.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10004 11308 bytes
SHA-256: 90d0ccbe26e288fd58ce44ff9d59447a1428079eb974b88d02ce2a7cc445cd9f
font_02_sfnt_off00011aa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AA8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1