Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27e9ea7964601848…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.5 KB Created: 2021-07-13 23:04:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 624132d07213c53f979fd36557c94d37 SHA-1: a2471625045cfaecd1df04ae156341f8d9ecd419 SHA-256: 27e9ea7964601848e5a1dd705fbcd2957051d271ee9afd2c251f746aa9159490
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document containing embedded JavaScript and a large number of external links. Many of these links point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=child+warm+to+touch+but+no+fever PDF link annotation
    • https://ideylia.fr/uploads/file/59863766501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yemany.com/yemfiles/files/tapeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa1d49fae70792895bcc79cd4a8c53f9/wumotiduwilasupel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4k5va1pildgukf4uo2anvk6b2g/21357578317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ci1b7md7nsjcfe4gfn0v2pbnt1/56633327872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-coeppicus.ch/userfiles/files/zixomenanosuges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonkmp.nl/img/cms/file/92965220615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semut73.com/contents//files/togale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab102b191c295091ddd13937330373e4/90616826082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b5f0d72eba2e37420f332f228a7325a/95964534889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15f61437c20ac5489e422e709587161c/runekerowowiniwisir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gktc4271355ufa7sai479310m6/doxufelixotadobitufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rsiaeovb7uvbgjq5j8rtscsu65/86084604495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ig2mgol60f191s5lr3hl7lon86/52825932490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/91006524013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8751b9039f---gitajigopabim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lspjso33cslo4v504pdbp1am1s/woxowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb990a96806---21742981316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54f151bc9333b18a9ce32cda6e8d8873/82877214999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98322084d85bd6d85d58f53ff8034632/15034979936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garageanything.com/js/upload/files/73176815969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yearbookplus.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/rixarukakono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perilatomsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90666406461.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_off000140ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140AB 17768 bytes
SHA-256: 9770468b3b45ce4494fc8b9d1b9482baa0a417ecb476b5d7cc7abb26b65fedb2
font_01_sfnt_off00016f75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F75 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 37e29fe617a8fc12bf71a9065a80dcb29f7589bccb0ed27edfe09092e1a49b39
font_02_sfnt_off000188e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x188E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1