Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27f7d8d14cc1db1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 07:30:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e54378073b2610f48c50b315aad229af SHA-1: 57bc313375bb478ab25a11c2f8e75a192aff9479 SHA-256: 27f7d8d14cc1db1a23f0b275f25dd3194a396a5aaf056a7ebd5dd041351df272
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to distribute or redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072864f24af7---lakinulodurofin.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021061423114573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velo.hu/UserFiles//file/88647892864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mineraux-et-lithotherapie.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/62770193628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sireny.net/share/files/84902661467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rund-sro.cz/UserFiles/File/wajaxijub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078fd8c991e2---39099374289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96e0a243cf8bbcc570b0200a3ebb4d4b/tilodirafejomiragulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.dk/upload/86825198418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45uad9ldcb4r0mesnpes2jkrso/gageleguno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708f618f9e4---wugijiwasijasagurabuseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa31ba24272---kekutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/betotavapix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surausa.com/uploads/files/8430815926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilexgold.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/rogowubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cutskytools.com/d/files/8843905962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/37091511863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609068a5af460---29915677479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/tejeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/54717610956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cq9q5cmect4pekvqm53fm1ituh/35388322721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a06bbb5412be7d8a2b71cac678e07a5/96990831267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=expressive+and+receptive+language+expansion+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000af64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF64 15112 bytes
SHA-256: 830caddd94cb332cbc6271bb54396019f2fed93e2a9ecc964b7fa1090f4591aa
font_01_sfnt_off0000d542.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD542 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED59 11224 bytes
SHA-256: 88d417702189235eb7946ff2b887f939454c53c133c88832b09ef04e67ecbe7c