Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ac27a10dab57489…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-08-07 11:28:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f87294e059579dcd9d686e5fe964d545 SHA-1: 02de1a2194ef5bc38739e91d41a0cf9626dcdad9 SHA-256: 6ac27a10dab57489ca9e67432a1e09e3b5b7e6aac561a2ac8aaba6490f0b6c43
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to websites, some hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ncert+grade+9+maths+textbook+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/90163765140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8c5137898a---daduzojuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2da83b90671ff8cf565715f3b3fb92a4/27920255720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8i97mhpvcdar71imnjqv49io35/lipokanipumokiwemurexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/86051165002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mistralizmiryonetim.com/uploads/file/gugokufeposisunakiporuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab915157c5a---67249669877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourhkg.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/74032680720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb468b9f33b1f14fc96fc40e9cfb5abd/19011216458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propiedades.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dowemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/80192596894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/1626197028232874153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.horakgolf.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37939749225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mr38ks8pdehpreupjovtg002sp/72657270238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/43649559523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f398a4c9b519844c8ab702120cbd2cff/85654516471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongsaigon.vn/uploads/files/52135758238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/betofajipebezoluruba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2151a8b2be47f8ccd1f0f41dab01683/susupaxomilinuzujepebopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/45622044843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e130a57df---fozimusorupakuxiwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titusrelay.com/clients/e/ef/ef304ccc03541e9e6382bef5f13b0a7d/File/28750579902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fceresources.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xakumesusajaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/topepemedorometar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5d4aea3ed---limukapifemola.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_off0000f046.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF046 11244 bytes
SHA-256: fad16687f19aae306a2fc2d1ea5519ba885b4c4a87f846bca453458bf4c632be
font_01_sfnt_off00010a62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A62 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012274.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12274 16744 bytes
SHA-256: 02e5d8413ad2061f37147e6dc4ad2e6e478f710f6349c3c0f8406c293fb03c8e