Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 727d38df806ae4cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:10:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b0f2046557f00c60c582e2db48572000 SHA-1: b2720cf4e23bbe36d34f8a07658d90916e6627d1 SHA-256: 727d38df806ae4cdd1aaf4097428cdea7f27aac4ec6228481809588b9c30a594
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads. The embedded URLs lead to various domains hosting PDF files, suggesting a phishing or exploit delivery mechanism. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://revucue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fipaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gofropack.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/862befc3240ae850874dc266849ed18f/sofesanokijigefimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ecb89b281e---92748984952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xagawodifojusopunexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e92c31862a8---41912757275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e404b3d7a9---folexedajepobida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prieteniitehnicii.ro/documente/file/99680205083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736725b8386---54992483985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rt2c5oq2itgi6vpdj26vishq34/dibudukogobizekebazebakin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5d8f392be---jogajebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipwillettelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/99346707192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huntland.hu/upload/file/45087238042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuduchouse.vn/pics/file/7806681196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b750461ba---89127967877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092baa216166---7113125926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161328d670a449---71894659943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/33215921653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r6me2mertj2v56pq91fe6sknq1/94712890621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac202d70497---38777445868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/13809350344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d4d8095c1---60233349533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nyirfa.hu/uploads/files/45517422005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myosiaffiliate.com/199trust/img/file/kadewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=descriptive+statistics+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000e4fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4FD 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 2d43a942417e36675735990a40d372f4ead79a7b202c88fca1dad820254a299c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDF8 18008 bytes
SHA-256: b32517a6fb37359c6d09ddd31f1d00d41006742a855cb593a387d4688e608f5b
font_02_sfnt_off00012cb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1