Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a27982ff4735a77a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 08:19:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3bc0f7ef271539b4cc1d5f6c8017eb1b SHA-1: d843110a35af66e92cbae89a8834b2e32d617159 SHA-256: a27982ff4735a77a0d10818764742191975bb9abd028dc643048ec7d225cf9de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests an attempt to track user engagement, common in phishing or SEO manipulation schemes. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=diamond+digger+saga+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/3361429867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sameiroeventos.pt/ficheiros/nojolafaxosodefalazotive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbriz.ru/userfiles/file/80251184196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130413e19a0e---36050015397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://odlingfamily.com/userfiles/file/97293985865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoradiator.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/gujekusumorapinudokuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altera.ukrstroyka.com/content/xuploadimages/file/xobilezefubisuvetuwiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtyxbpzx.com/filespath/files/20210906051045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/39375075797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mots.alaxarxa.cat/cmsimple/images/file/48158339086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi-m.ru/userfiles/file/vefeduzikixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://confidenzacsapagy.hu/upload/24503928503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134fe91c7c83---ritedigulagazebuxakodux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnokorea.com/userfiles/file/ruzit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miroslaws.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuzirekokowatekas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminentland.com/admin/userfiles/files/nedajeziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abriganature.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/xigenuludi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-customer.de/userfiles/file/75494058617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.org/userfiles/file/76719021528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenbins.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84880682109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bycongroup.com/UserFiles/file/83131590045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varadimasszazs.hu/uploads/files/83515609674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdaaa34cb45b3457ec33e68f56bfc8f5/xobowezisademanapamem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000bfd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFD4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7EB 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 4cd24e95fd9b19dc47fa7db50fa6b4225abf20e02b017a0311a49c46d38a76f1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f01e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF01E 21040 bytes
SHA-256: 8bbae0e9a1c7ff4965ff207887579a7765c002f2ae9797906fbfebdda6bcb386