Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83c27875bc028420…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-31 01:03:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: c4e3c8f313a00f1c284d54060e423b68 SHA-1: a1a2c0d2e095d87ef99b84be01b6b7b996bedd7c SHA-256: 83c27875bc0284208288e1c2ef60f9fb71ff7c9ff82dd5548792fddb2d01a2b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely contains malicious content. The document functions as a link farm, embedding numerous URLs that point to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. This suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious sites, possibly for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://nusantarabet4d1.com/contents//files/sidaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aexpress.lv/index/images/up/file/71470024269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cabsfromheathrow.com/userfiles/file/ratenibub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a499550dcc4---63167257256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ua2mlpvlr1irdev20gsb886q3/31967285578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a263dc681c9---gazafukemujugud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4340c786c3a132a717ca8894efc16f8/85667885976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rougeindigo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16227684482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099bb278b22b---tuxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/20318601561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olgapolyakova.de/files/files/23868201570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c41f365349b---xulajesazijadesiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160744742b9a38---39983242392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/60709289216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dennehylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sepewuzesogaxasemusigila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50b345c7821c58eb64b0e54a156bfccf/81404158099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161047278de434---jevekaxunavawuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1149c4728cd89523ddacf59fa8956e24/60469481221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/koho0irrm7iujt369b3qt12rm1/lirufuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/piresuluwofalajugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burfel.ru/upfiles/files/7044611747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/817d3f63497c2cf96801e78b89a79373/88439597817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/up3tp6043bfru0bue8i244g5cm/wilujejisuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnmichaelharrisonlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/38465121228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+do+bengali+actors+get+paidPDF 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_off0000f6c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6C8 11276 bytes
SHA-256: 4c4f4e6582efc257b44a4418dfbdf63f68a2fadffbe24f6976466a20823d24fe
font_01_sfnt_off0001109f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1109F 17436 bytes
SHA-256: 87cfdcf75f8465a06ae745ec37e8abcfca050cb8fa8e65e6ff600173b5c0f4ff
font_02_sfnt_off00013e67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E67 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1