Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 627ebdbb8c27f0f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 23:00:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 65c1dede805a1713885248d747f20a79 SHA-1: bae4c5908faa2ab225791bf66e4760be5b040d38 SHA-256: 627ebdbb8c27f0f17cd744007c4c59d64bde66376b3acad031be48152196dfdc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories on various domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of link farms on potentially disposable hosting further supports a malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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 http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613df1de80d08---rekuwefiroxesisaxuliver.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://na-bytecek.cz/UserFiles/File/sukatugelidatenipozoxatab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sivam.pl/files/file/23409495381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ff965e6b90---repufejeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtestbd.com/assets/uploads/files/figopirejadikisezilaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqdpn41em3o4lgd4pg9og1pbp0/lelitozoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbjarrahi.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/zumevaxejototifenus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dealershop.es/userfiles/file/gofumiremojopukifusisuluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehla.eu/userfiles/file/mifijojav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmet.pl/upload/9916754967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimobertoarchitetto.com/userfiles/files/83938696425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmbarrenetxea.soinuenea.eus/files/galeria/files/42136752997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zavalinka.by/var/upload/file/mopinojetutito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingtassinari.eu/userfiles/files/2824239061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cck-brno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jatizixuvupoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelushba.com/userfiles/file/66958356640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.macrolepidoptera.hu/userfiles/files/83967598663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36517437234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copacndg.com/images/uploads/files/saweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c5887fba6---vulemuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitnet.hu/editor_up/93281770334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+be+a+3+man+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ec337198363c6f6093f9eace3f03c50/46789737527.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_off000129d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000141e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141E2 19628 bytes
SHA-256: 6a2b8da721fe09d359ecb1f2fdaa5a29f3728eec92bdcae5f9a1779e1ebb0898
font_02_sfnt_off00017593.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17593 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 5afee9fa1a3d1651ee4e5926a7ce909bbc08354a8a52e9b72a1beed9c331e54a