Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a727b95fa629e495…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-08-15 20:00:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 87d074a6d3aca5916a3a243086454907 SHA-1: 44e665b13efa344715b621a49160873fce515954 SHA-256: a727b95fa629e495b73ce23eccd0b7f60eaa9707bc4944cf11f60ef83fac766f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting domains, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple links on potentially compromised or disposable hosting indicates a phishing or redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://dztechfin.com/upload/file///66378604188.pdf
    • https://himalayanwanderer.com/himalayan/userfiles/files/32905071317.pdf
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab000b8654c---sebotugabezo.pdf
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724153b5961---79551397676.pdf
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/56285426301.pdf
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/tibizu.pdf
    • http://dailyliving.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dexosofomosisobip.pdf
    • https://solidpractise.com/files/userfiles/file/89156233680.pdf
    • http://angelofthewinds.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gonufobuzabomemilub.pdf
    • https://www.moxiclear.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45386380103.pdf
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608307302bc9f---19387692002.pdf
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607986966ac16---24651345396.pdf
    • http://liyangah.com/Upload/file/xebigipidamel.pdf
    • http://tdbakademi.org/userfiles/files/15652548937.pdf
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf24864b733---kunupaduximav.pdf
    • https://media-get.com/userfiles/files/64849412007.pdf
    • https://fertilizergranulatorprice.com/d/files/11256907370.pdf
    • http://whsclass1968.com/clients/f/f8/f849445bb2fb8f42e7c863050dc1ba38/File/39959308603.pdf
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/45262702160.pdf
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/15000909928.pdf
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acebd699738---2134797635.pdf
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc009349094---55332365905.pdf
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/803a6d879404662fbebbce4d259ef3a1/75578631727.pdf
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2qh18kijmmo7d1aurj3nk266s/40004644088.pdf
    • http://alisawedding.com/upload/users/files/gababajijuxegadofukuv.pdf
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/619a49a1b74b78034d0ad6c0adc92a08/wezasetu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=problemas+resueltos+de+sistemas+de+ecuaciones+lineales+2x2+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f510.bin
4482643955deda0207585e681e609ad73baaf727dd6ccd202abdef76be0a42b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF510 17768 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012260.bin
6f3a7fefe5d19a7880554ebc1087bc53f1ca4f09abcd891c0dcb7080cf2e3df6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12260 11244 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013c92.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C92 16792 bytes