Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27e380f970c16f40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-07 10:42:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9358002dc4d3b9e434169ff2e1d8b3bb SHA-1: 1adcfc9b84bd1a2c5170d98aad5eb2a19b1da457 SHA-256: 27e380f970c16f4008300f001acaf80bedd90ba652ec390a3294dfdf9a772931
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 compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting and compromised WordPress sites reinforces the nature of this attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jo6n35gqoftjmo2bctmnj47fpl/xovezeneropudamu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cpspcb.com/uploads/files/53596428664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straub-online.ch/userfiles/files/84114773641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd27080c166---fepijeweribibejonoril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/261a1dfb11113985fa7d24bae285a7af/lozisimofomabegunij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e520a6f65b---43636433402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alaskacounseling.org/clients/8/87/870ae3779d21e956d596131c1dd113ff/File/72181982889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a50b1958fef---96841912461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vegagastro.pl/upload/file/93586795057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fcbaacee7338d79cde6dc3bddcb112c/mapodojadobak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0f1a2afb96378cc1e0f8a726b26febd/84923782959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/lidog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b76a86a9d5---43243050978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aujc67um4tlvbn4ebrnv67c96/jevakevelogidikis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e167c71e2661feb692bd81056b1361e/70934877079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202106110554416511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bfc85cc01e---21437717896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/fajefofifakokobovamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b010bf67b1e9dd47fc1b2450a04c3dc7/nizajem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cec0caed03863137f7afed99a4da05c/kipenalexesezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autobedrijvenindex.nl/images/uploads/xufibifujabavur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dfdbf2d7ea653b02ee6577e08482579/tasomuminamolefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db947a25471---fuxepefupokamaxeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijp2.com/contents//files/46794921710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=menstruation+meaning+in+tamilPDF 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_off0000ed75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED75 10544 bytes
SHA-256: ee583cc96cc2dc3f7515f3bc0eb5f6d63fa8ec975ff8b9cb9c5fbfe425ec63cf
font_01_sfnt_off0001057d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1057D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D8F 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 59951b99654805166fce9e60851131c73b554970721e4f9cb27779da337564a1