Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27f446c3597945f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-09-30 21:53:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 5ba0866ad2ec117ea56749831016f1c6 SHA-1: 9f14ffd883ecff48f93eb5522e2690415145b164 SHA-256: 27f446c3597945f8fbf5c436a0abc862f711054a0d10eeb36e2331e2b53a804c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics further supports the attack pattern of directing users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=note+5+pro+latest+update PDF link annotation
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/nexidividefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av72-reklama.ru/userfiles/file/16304976428d7ce85fcfe945df787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ie575pq9a17vofm1703rd4h5p2/98593692264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmlukanich.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xomufimupito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackivy.pl/userfiles/file/15991480789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tccsrl.org/userfiles/files/38018060475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c899e3ea6---53473053471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5daf5c4a153d4d9a83051d66796623a7/52102110103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hocikto.info/userfiles/file/77976338157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sentralperdana.com/file/32954660260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chilegastronomia.cl/uploads/userfiles/files/rugakagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161365f96524d1---32630697885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mycoapaisyl.com/webimages/files/lepefusobomozumusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1mosref.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26461342158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolizmusonline.hu/images/upload/file/navawogukemixipaviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioaba.net/userfiles/files/dalorubunebaduxufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariailmarzocco.it/userfiles/files/navalagokijufijizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irths.com/upload_files/files/54916430642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitnet.hu/editor_up/52469282239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krukaiart.com/userfiles/files/jibulow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuqiaohome.com/uploads/files/202109130453298576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skomi.ru/img/files/file/muzawusiwagidipajokimunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poketomecam.com/uploads/files/17633597409.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_off0000b3b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3B0 17736 bytes
SHA-256: e3bc0cd6e978c1cd96dcc8d13de1a9b872b8bbf430d720f6e9eb4366d6d6319d
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFD3 10400 bytes
SHA-256: f2596a4802b1d75c3ec57d253c6358c12bb853ee8540b7dfaa1495b1082de300
font_02_sfnt_off0000f79a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF79A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1