Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 827b06150be938a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-29 21:57:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 783bcb04b1b44290e68c85f90c745206 SHA-1: e908aa85d41e1496e9dafd74c20eb9109c055b65 SHA-256: 827b06150be938a52551046f51eb138b46150470814f346abc86bdf865dd0da7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links, many pointing to external PDF documents hosted on various domains, some of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure suggests a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://hagepoorter.be/files/files/90904413977.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jeneifogaszat.hu/cikkdata/files/fenebitunowilemedowesazub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087011ea5e84---62045255349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ural-resyrs.ru/data/file/27922963968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tovicetour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210607_DB88D29A6278F890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0fa26h99ns9493aq1nvv0r5ut/lefovaponapejinikofemoxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafjbaeihgganggf9ajkncugh2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/14650802473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cddbe1761f---futawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eb4f67aed9---79745562787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5a96627a7---pewoderutabojosevoresojox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/39921288493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/152c2d9ff6f3760a55de0fe135bb18f1/tuzavijaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/546c0f71f2d4355fc1b83e5f63967a2c/96056185865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://internationalmedia.com/userfiles/file/4823187451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1516bafdf2---94127667615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c156737a07c---wusuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd6a0c006c74c0ff6eb6fdc3d3b9ddf0/zutovitekesiwijikepoposi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f03434be3ba3cc3656c91598e14f654c/91317839558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2acontractor.it/images/file/83082573135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077261dcc23b---ginexizigazetagururo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-13/20210613072541577542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsgarten.com/editorData/file/69219456453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vma0vjd16f944ojmbi1eq640bp/89351366393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+setup+spectrum+remote+to+onn+tvPDF 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_off0000f31e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF31E 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 5b7cc32509e37433c487a999706d30668d2f39f6f7c2a2e511bcf045671967a3
font_01_sfnt_off00010afb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AFB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001230d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1230D 16988 bytes
SHA-256: 0ba8fbe6a4fead732e948151b61fad97a2a966d1aeedbbbb863fd6cf5588dd0c