Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c2827029b66cd97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 01:03:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f1729ec69a491846c5011673c3af3142 SHA-1: 6b019aa79b6ff3279b610eab95090cf901559471 SHA-256: 4c2827029b66cd9712de58c762c6535e84fe2de70c701a08a006964649937ca0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous URLs on compromised infrastructure strongly suggests a malicious distribution or redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f476be834c---danogerefaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c49690eb13d---16814487771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a60ce0e2d9b---40686004345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kb4t0gblhjhvdip4986eet52u1/2096691530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/gimojakotarepix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meimagedance.tw/ufiles/files/50030414441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6h400m90osm9iutcm84lp4a1o2/xamenebuxewogixixapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncvpte.in/userfiles/file/61737530670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbq5b1t6dc9jf5v6jdtu1fboun/35082032674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80ba221397c8dfa19f099a268220130b/51450402073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szsahsh.com/uploads/files/415120853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b19c89e4049---pemefojojutifito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzj.net/upload/files/2021071317351196427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergepkolcsonzo.hu/userfiles/file/mutegolobezaletisonegezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa2822dd59d---53000726234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c9248df4c5270a03b017eacc1e63521/48638337785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33be19162803fa467073e15b5fcc1e79/65084134916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d67bfb2a7b---25760971880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ca755423c---kololivaluwuzinixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haniltm.kr/upfiles/editor/files/zupujifipatujefufutubegup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f91a80122e87f37a6147bf064fe4964e/lanitufojazes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kar360.com/resimler/files/29817950173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfb357681adf2ac5be2e43fc47c04d87/tewutotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=room+on+the+broom+pdfPDF 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_off0000db35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB35 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 6a4b38ba45cbb1109af4970387e1533312cac0080f433dfcf6ef6c1cb41d37ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000f287.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF287 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A99 18124 bytes
SHA-256: 3c21958075d9cc7b72eb97038ef05f92d1fe81376adef222e5bcec2675468f30

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