Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a27269a4e52c7c55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 01:01:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ddef9a9ef5dc868daf78683b64654df3 SHA-1: fd0007fce378349ce4fa154fcb89aeeb8a5c9191 SHA-256: a27269a4e52c7c555dffa2cfc6b1610ab9558c5e03a350a7e2ea3572079b1447
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF used as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://galluccifaibano.com/userfiles/file/xupuge.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d62d469de---90072507665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7816df96f---namapuzoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metrocars.london/survey/userfiles/files/miratutovivolenegudodikir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soundspace.eu/Upload/file/vusoligalaxiwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4seasonstours.in/userfiles/file/zodafujoruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-2/20210502061054640552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927fff99177---52777579975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/040642481270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroroma-bg.org/files/file/gavotifosazam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/11504685234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nobojozifarazevimumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltmnrmd6vuki9oh9lvonkgrhf2/tibofaxinewanebakuzito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firanywiktoria.pl/uploads/editor/file/kebatepevosajekofojokexux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p47h540mhihoap8u2507acqo8g/dadese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cahayamimpi1.com/contents//files/mudikigoxisig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigxra.com/uploadfile/file/2021073002562173499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/viwetajut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiobrisasdelnorte.com/userfiles/file/xuvavesusofufopevogome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://absoluteanytime.com/media_file/files/files/miwefuvivojaroninofuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7a514cbce---felireko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmvolontari.it/userfiles/files/6142625566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degrossier.nl/uploads/file/94997895562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voszveszprem.hu/_user/file/65129847378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/969500bdeee058b70af98ca499a1e400/76762071362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=integrales+de+funciones+trigonometricas+hiperbolicas+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_off0000d3ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3AE 18660 bytes
SHA-256: 740f293a93b6718820863c93fb1846e69011acaea072a4693cec3788adbe95be
font_01_sfnt_off000103c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011bdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BDF 11256 bytes
SHA-256: b5914f989738f1007346d2597ad501eb85a8e4ce1fad25afe426b5c5ee3940c0

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