Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27ff6ccb5c9cba85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 08:44:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8352d1c0cdbaf46e964f1bc18b64a554 SHA-1: d18aa1dacf390181b756faee01cfb6f6f9c16d33 SHA-256: 27ff6ccb5c9cba858c33705bf5a137a438071156ce5afbbfb079353d3bcaf960
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a ML classifier and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads, likely to host further malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of multiple distinct hosts and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac40d7d142---zivagolepeze.pdf
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pd4cpnq3n1jrvq7hp8q2bvpp7c/64023234572.pdf
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0gp11e6j91ullp5a551brl640/12549122201.pdf
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71f1a4db6e15f891a16757425596bf2c/gojexobatubilas.pdf
    • https://samoinstitute.mn/uploads/assets/file/85845807536.pdf
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805d18be33f---nelibikamebirutiror.pdf
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608856db49b28---mopuraduzogig.pdf
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ca4185d0ecdeb1b3935f6a7ae67ef65/zakebonibavawaduxasokoz.pdf
    • http://1959blackshirts.com/clients/866684/File/11649334604.pdf
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e5149e5e8---84873779504.pdf
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9be149a71d12d148b49781517b9bcee/32173589525.pdf
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bslubd30lm2lbjmv97jm894ohc/zedabizade.pdf
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a45ede89ef6---zofimijanilagulalesevimuk.pdf
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/359daac4f305c6ec0f6f1da2a9587b05/jexezajavijofepivofu.pdf
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3vvf9hmbadfidcl8isgtsspk9h/5385592269.pdf
    • http://kennycojewelry.com/userfiles/files/202106/1623283758.pdf
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f5cdab638b61a4cc308be5269d4b65b/13698236527.pdf
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b19427b5c---jojewubikofulikubaxosox.pdf
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcb9i4gq3nrv2107rhpgh1gaa2/5678375814.pdf
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608236941806c---siguroke.pdf
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3a0ea84b5d167842bf30d588edac30a/68909348794.pdf
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/ripifidototamufe.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+the+countries+in+the+triple+entente
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f410.bin
8a2ba0463890b539d67cda7814f4b68ba021b752e03b626dc903521cb3a37e56
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF410 16288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011e2f.bin
d9921c2347ee275e9d1bfba7b7d36be30f59026db6970d7289539d9ce509b58b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E2F 10564 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013644.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13644 16792 bytes