Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27e68fdc360854e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:13:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e3e8ec3eb662e9db0328162a65dd99f3 SHA-1: cfd195d506e52fadda96cb0acc81f6cfd0d6fef0 SHA-256: 27e68fdc360854e2aa8d83ea107de9c17aa48d4e595fd29d5a7f1f53feceb5e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs, such as http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/er0qtjkjtbj2mf5q1sgpnptvqc/63513239093.pdf, are likely part of this redirection scheme.

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 http://shiny-baby.com/fileimage/file/pegogazu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dichvuketoanvn.org/uploads/files/89261178080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weilaimachinery.com/userfiles/files/pufadogumijofokidivuriso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hq4lu5hi5hak24r43laf1vsmd4/90785086467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5555dbc2e1---sapimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aamuhsv-madisonalumni.org/files/files/wibunetokobuwodidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/039c14afa0568a63ee94e10a80215b84/19547549061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowanmkt.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xaroje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab1012b0dac256b8bd29280a32043343/povawoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlangkhan.com/upload/userfiles/files/mikolanefovuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/er0qtjkjtbj2mf5q1sgpnptvqc/63513239093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b998a05b80---bifitedixoludetaxogema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanchanaspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65016181262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5m-tti.com/uploads/image/files/32245089737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/gavedomom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kustari.net/userfiles/file/85522718870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/10142923588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0fa6ca9b10be3f4e4cf6a568ff855b4/74291825561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bainihu.com/upfiles/editor/files/57173306361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digemnd.com/UserFiles/file/wafalerotobixumaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b865f78d6a2---wutujesorixiwoped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njuhome.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/namivuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/56157441048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.de/userfiles/file/94878693187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/26487466722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=glow+worm+boiler+ultracom+18hxi+manualPDF 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_off0000be32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE32 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 64f5fef822e08cab32df568b1f67372cd032d1a57e645e72aec1038ce4a9e358
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7E1 17272 bytes
SHA-256: 49b67906d4b4e5964b1f06fff6d2547a541e128a5da1b4a6b439f12fbca2c8c4
font_02_sfnt_off00010438.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10438 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1