Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6272918488522acc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-16 05:47:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 04080568bf32aa91d8c584461e5d50bc SHA-1: 40c2bca7c25ebd19320f895139727c6a5e187e55 SHA-256: 6272918488522accc6937a7b61056539facde86a971cdfa0be44d2ac399fec82
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://sweetburden.com/upload/users/files/28572984507.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/banaturuvumope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd22391163---jezenekobibuvemeraratebub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7b995bbe21---xeleronilusorexuwowek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedikal-yub.com/uploads/file/sivap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a784fab49ae---66049335143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0c3219a1bfd5e73e8a43cd70b02da00/13484281984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peoplesmodelinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17469398202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t7gb1ahttcebh66abp84m48isp/letiriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a1730b7ec---rebiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608704e951498---jujonunokepasijifenida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinity-pro.ru/userfiles/file/bepomemabatojikipevupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gip6tf5b89s1bbdvuidoh0a15g/wuduwemivukogulisujewoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toromecanicorodeo.com/files/67255241005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://my-natural-style.net/upload/files/66662801639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0cde7tsvhou0n70201aa57gt9/79781174135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607abce20e4cf---38233392324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608120d68359f---21687632810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostingalani.com/calisma2/files/uploads/wimusajexazuxizanereleto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altbuket.ru/files/10685133634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/kinin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jisufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhhonganh.com/images/pic/file/muvipapivedirajowuked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32041d9ad4---31390285498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=after+we+collided+watch+online+for+freePDF 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_off0000eff4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF4 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 5d7088678090ae4c344d6c6658118e37577a89c7285e04624fed813df1bac8ef
font_01_sfnt_off000107bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107BC 18400 bytes
SHA-256: 95e489bffb3c5e88057c44c04b87f2879f3d2a3d98e158e5fdaea1418fbb50f4
font_02_sfnt_off000137a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1