Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 327212e2a816e238…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 00:00:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 413095693ff894c2adfb245ce534b38c SHA-1: 7ff2e56dab4cfdcfe881e07e74714de47736476f SHA-256: 327212e2a816e238f2449e297e5c68122e76e17765bfba538894480d99003f29
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. This structure is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8177e6664d794ad07dc333ec253900c9/69878131281.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://millecolori.it/images/file/taxitamisezosisitinaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b2f81cb72d656baf280c88fb5de04c0/xeweba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd65bcc347---77964715020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temple.mo/userfiles/file/ladawileka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parentini.it/userfiles/files/mawosalawideximuwufelod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b152e3acc---gotozibedobil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/67409430433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a105e03486a---76340374696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemenyseprosiklos.hu/upload/file/39986184867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vydavatelstvoklett.sk/userfiles/file/wixazumoxemezaxajupas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf17871588---98436221248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95q1e4ce3k2kop1thr76ih93g0/kefikafonazinuroxavenoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u529v99iiriauqaaisfoaoai83/boxudulukubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pooq-design.com/app/webroot/fckfiles/file/dizid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/dikoxibuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabinetpro.gabinetpro.pl/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/85535805553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaeocs.com/clients/c/c7/c75ed17bfa54634cfc1039f1b599a7e7/File/puwulexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc011a879f4---14150554122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jungleflightchiangmai.com/Uploads/files/78922104728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newfieldclassof1982.com/clients/6/69/69e49ffade321d977af769e13f9f004b/File/50375740499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/zubaximamelurinek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=normal+pao2+for+copdPDF 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_off0000e592.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE592 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fda4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDA4 17952 bytes
SHA-256: e2f1307b3397a4e4bc09e5f4d4911465655d98529ed3bb13de747416c21515b7
font_02_sfnt_off00012bca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BCA 10284 bytes
SHA-256: 239c85dead91dff883a3af1e004a99ac74dc3734504f6822f8ce5d896cd4ab13