Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27dc595a137648fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-08-17 08:03:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 221ac36742a90c996cc6418a1acbe783 SHA-1: 2174434a5f45a36945fa7817255f62380a5e9dfe SHA-256: 27dc595a137648fea9ab1f291bf129fe5786a05293af0a55f6bb88adbc9cbfc7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content but reinforcing the malicious nature indicated by the heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 http://sweed-trans.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sujurazurenemufemem.pdf
    • http://mrpokedb.com/uploads/files/62484050748.pdf
    • http://zerosquareonline.com/file/98289001398.pdf
    • http://automozg.by/upload/editor/files/59135524445.pdf
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3c09c742bdc7ebb49357d05d46bf2bc/40380101194.pdf
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adafdb841ec---23925906303.pdf
    • https://pui-vital.ro/msg_media/file/medotitiduxixe.pdf
    • http://thephinhmienbac.com/upload/files/74558736305.pdf
    • https://olympicwroclaw.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/3465440235.pdf
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8eb4226bbe---ziseg.pdf
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/siwipowi.pdf
    • http://eshop-kocicinadeje.cz/files/file/dukezudizufeditedewo.pdf
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12882916495.pdf
    • http://nsfeed.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/zamarudunuwinewev.pdf
    • http://kokomo1986.com/clients/31029/File/95117700693.pdf
    • http://hopkinshigh62.com/clients/7/77/7764523e397120ad9b09b1da26998858/File/64413515670.pdf
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/84154177075.pdf
    • http://qzgyhs.com/Upload/file/kegivofelelunazux.pdf
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/46576609052.pdf
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65cb6ac7d0af6a832908395e073100c2/zosebe.pdf
    • http://xhiehchin.com/Xhieh_News/_file/52060425286.pdf
    • http://kolasinprevoz.rs/slike/files/15764585122.pdf
    • http://huile-de-nigelle.info/userfiles/file/danovatajukexiruzeme.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=fichas+descriptivas+por+alumno+preescolar+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e617.bin
fd494554c7a7a2c4488382a78096c535ff133766c7221992be4f6a58596b2467
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE617 16164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb8e.bin
ee1c97e7c0ce3b28254283f9689f3849b74fc302f86f76977859fd1d85748091
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB8E 11028 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011504.bin
85a3b2a24f4c25277f155ba0f40fdc97414ab97f24e46416f872d8655b2cf815
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11504 18192 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001428b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1428B 16792 bytes