Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c27006b12b88fe6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-07-02 07:56:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4d1a2e2195b409b4e63f8c6fec30258a SHA-1: e8858434e2cb352b4cf7f5179dad925dfff8adf8 SHA-256: 4c27006b12b88fe6aba015653ea91765bdf28b55bb22069964f1f4a1e337a2b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the 'link farm' heuristics suggest a potential for JavaScript execution or redirection to further malicious stages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c071738eb0a---burunugejub.pdf
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c5e4d96dc---benilixison.pdf
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac7d5fae381---13481970537.pdf
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea4d6b947bd0777821af5bc41c42bdf9/79892586086.pdf
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mtr3vdmdfu05i5a5e9a53jqhal/vexor.pdf
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2sq5ucpk3dacq26jsnfqeelva4/57948556009.pdf
    • http://www.themixchange.com/userfiles/files/43059135430.pdf
    • http://gagutp.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210619010846.pdf
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607934a0537c8---sunasanojimejapu.pdf
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/85612804290.pdf
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88b583e19894e385f859d71f7656fa77/6532128585.pdf
    • https://orldoc.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqd2r39h9abtjna32qvstcfe11/wunusivokedefuraxebemova.pdf
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771de8d2241---xezasofexuwuvufamedol.pdf
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089608431f07---julevoferenuvumov.pdf
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/94752013435.pdf
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccfd63aedbb---94717013494.pdf
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/45225916802.pdf
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49bd9e2cfc---85489883911.pdf
    • http://laduses.nl/image/file/58547128541.pdf
    • https://starbox.fr/img/files/75241500901.pdf
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff6d993ad878278cc9bd6fcc5e9d0d0c/27600896708.pdf
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f78b043bgmb7k2tonb3fvpkn3b/66483555432.pdf
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eb0165fb5752c0a43de301a1fc1d583/43920362168.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=keith+whitley+let+it+be+me
    • 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_off0000e032.bin
aeaa21deb04b818fa1ddfdbc56acde75730d5469af514c57f9740c21e3fd7f16
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE032 17460 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010d6e.bin
891c2be9fcb4999256e378bd9af13f3dc85dec7019336e5eb2a3e7bebf2e7c22
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D6E 10052 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000123ca.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123CA 16792 bytes