Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 827b64874f27e7ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:27:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 36a9015a802306c247521541b0970519 SHA-1: 4672be695ccd2843e92bbfbb3ef842bcc3730bce SHA-256: 827b64874f27e7ef615ef89732f98de0e2801ce28f229ba83126aaf0c68dfdcb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a pattern of directing users to external resources. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://www.cafeinca.com/img/public/contenido/file/26617990854.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brooklinehs1964.com/clients/6/6a/6a3559cec3eb17f551da2d864c8c85ab/File/8767429889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pioneerlift.com/upfiles/editor/files/jumijan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b986ea9b3357c5a9905fb8f02050cd46/20853016761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fisioterapiasuzzara.it/userfiles/files/11769730163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/gagetokekibilaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb6b24cc3a---68114677151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6fff110b7e06dfdf28969b3cf8e7cdb/gifarojorupaloxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/89845401741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075596aacca1---18093035831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://treeoflifetolfu.com/clients/0/07/07f122ebb3396bb3f917f2e62af81596/File/86085624308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097480a5ee6d---nakadufobivebagevido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakkersvlaanderen.be/resources/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/0/files/nasirofenotiworariniba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/xativarorubukawev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9231d891e4---48523959583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ad35083d2---dafekosilodomiruriwubaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pixel-pro.ru/upload/file/tarowuxapolatironaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b405c3a99fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profix.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75883040877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptairsupply.com/userfiles/file/valobijegaridibixazuveji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthoaudio.com/upload/files/46018029375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/riguposuratap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uekekb.ru/!upload/files/87416237418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosurfest.com/userfiles/files/maxopep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2d5d3fa6eee0508fdda99d8e179bda4/90154321495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/99306771965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcremich.lu/files/files/58040618308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=logic+pro+x+audio+and+music+production+pdfPDF 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_off0000e878.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE878 10944 bytes
SHA-256: b5e8a4f0ea9b687dfa37ec17a38b0f6a07b90268759b4a636ea87eaf82d3839a
font_01_sfnt_off000101ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000119bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119BF 17320 bytes
SHA-256: 1e4c588b787454d0d76a7136cd008296d788a63636f2a31ae6485254b0052821