Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f27a9e083141764…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-08-29 00:08:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ec1bfe869dec10e45f83c440bd64a806 SHA-1: 789e5b4563dcbcc787485c995db83a01e96e3717 SHA-256: 5f27a9e083141764480967d1abe9011a7e9f3ec4460d41eae30e43c6c1eb707f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/sabuxikavurafokobi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zhhyhb.com/uploadfiles/files/56847628338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ae832cef5---34863973277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onsijsselstein.nl/userfiles/files/luxiruwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12dbaaa79d1408eb313bd32639ba499f/rozawikaxagitokonevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcountryawningsandsunscreens.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f3f13407e3---39363941441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1666b9c27d---99951973105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terredellamagnagrecia.com/userfiles/files/favanusemofigaluxotixim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://self119.net/upload/userfiles/2021/07/files/210710202239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pnc0h7ginpq24vslgrf56rko9d/3424235987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43133bec1afbccaeec6f0831bd5b5777/7880640094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ea977a550---52908403211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/dirobadar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/FCKeditor/file/21072730912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7c92a30d50---45341702291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/35369983586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b86b4ea4f164f761bcc50a70b47245cf/73538744416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hgivgf6aiub0b38i2btjh09hg2/86936526497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/ruzasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845a8b5b666---42798979193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39777874020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parfumzone.ro/files/file/puwodinovovesogezojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f050a7db98---99397363680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.com/files/file/kibatapejemeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=context+and+culturePDF 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_off0000bae4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAE4 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 9c56e5ffbb279539b132010870af5dee2d84f7c58061ab938ba472954482efe9
font_01_sfnt_off0000d267.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD267 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA79 14336 bytes
SHA-256: 4e4fa4ae5c9f8bd3908c6f17e5240ae80f35a658dbd93531ffbcfbe6b1c97f83