Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 327bd02966600eba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 06:20:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fa25b1bf8365f56f111f9dd1858c6625 SHA-1: 43ec1ce87604d7755c542bed34045b20290b16bd SHA-256: 327bd02966600eba34c30f214c71bff1298eb7e9b37d0a635f5c63a59b697558
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly suggests a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9926

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=walking+dead+season+1+episode+1+free PDF link annotation
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fg07qfjn8coe7g3bt328caldbl/82531654249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divapharma.com/uploaded/file/72255426564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toroisg.com/public/images/files/54103210443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-praha.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rupowujumegudapasagav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sanjuktabanerjee.com/fckimages/file/29138565330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandofigueiredo.com/userfiles/file///denigumilibiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161431742c6e24---gilozizerekudon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5beb204f16a5fc36fa927d77913d17dd/kupupefupixodesebowizir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-ktn.at/images/content/files/70586273002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15449010.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_E10BC6140DC73A28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nabisori.com/userfiles/file/rusulena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ingatlansos.hu/images/userfiles/file/34744666171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuongiare.vn/upload/files/64550714451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tovicetour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210910_BF4A1EEBDAE82DA5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snft.ro/media/file/riwasekuluselesavorix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klick-tipp.info/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/kirabegujinira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ieta2jf6dliunaj1lnmuj9vuig/26889039201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rent-1.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46571508224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatnagarancija.com/userfiles/file/74944830262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://360clothing.in/home/www360cl/public_html/uploads/images/files/64895872049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fioredda.com/userfiles/files/bezuvusunepev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunianco.com/other_files/File/dunimekonosonurufesumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161304b2ed1ec0---97399212795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moneymaker-gold.de/files/sufokeligazoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etkindenetim.com/resimler/files/moxebavena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altinhediyeler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/58842078422.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_off0001024a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1024A 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 5640cc079c7d1154d687239bca5923817225bd83c11cad949ed16e8a22cc6e1f
font_01_sfnt_off00011aca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ACA 18564 bytes
SHA-256: 46db92a585dca2edc65bb86e09f14faab84c0e37b3cebe9285c137426c4a8fbd
font_02_sfnt_off00014abc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14ABC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1