Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 828cd27d66090fc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-08-20 20:18:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 140a5f83250a905987838edea9997085 SHA-1: ac0f3dc2abac33ef08cc0e6868faa4040df58dc7 SHA-256: 828cd27d66090fc62a966ea674d6fe5e4bd8d8f710e033e2217c88e022eeafd7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing or redirection attack.

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://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ot7adhmoab9hvtfg2ag78ro04b/kovojaxe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/44596627400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkalc.com/userfiles/80265734355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sfmcvgui4e3ga24en276jfcoao/lasifukepinilubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarhomepage.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/55823857797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glina-master.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nafowigonenamet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilalyapidekorasyon.com/userfiles/file/gumedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pellevah.com/upload/files/zolobavaxujinutirataru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ita.kru.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kalewigubazora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stjconsulting.it/userfiles/files/13519672476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0775e7a35a---zalin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fb659ca330---beluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c8879d52d4---tigum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d419dbc2b---poregebigixufusem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca04e68d3a0---8158563891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pk496erk1j9l5c6b23hs0r7ork/63184275522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/95183681548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dfdtrading.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95058938204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/96558800940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a4u5teuof76va1p2nfqcg7sp5/kagamenozixexafuvewerudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b9a34bcf0---lupuzoliwodowumerim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b724c576c3c---jijuselurofozeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/juluzererixopemibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=what+intermolecular+forces+are+present+in+pentanol+and+waterPDF 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_off0000f425.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF425 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C37 16316 bytes
SHA-256: 9c9970838bc19324b56c9a9e81cb9cd48d7bc48ab5465b02bf8b44ede95277fb
font_02_sfnt_off00013695.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13695 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 3a7a9cfe815adca75f19c3848f4ffb025ede7c80484ae8794296b430484123e6