Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b272a67d59112f3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:42:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5ce2f09062f17ce7c5c9681b70059fa7 SHA-1: 5e8d75e5194f279b3b337d218f6ea9817c486228 SHA-256: b272a67d59112f3a0d1ae318c1a83d57b65608079c9e1eadc94c04c94cd82f7f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV also detecting it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF format strongly indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=signs+of+liver+cell+failure PDF link annotation
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1lncl4e7hog12kdhdbmuenkhn6/98244260730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f5b0ebfaba---naporofalisufuwofeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/091524bce1aaf3909139b73eaee294da/xuwazamomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bdd74c8c55---ritalutoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607490c1ea302---19391406239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iberia-ex.com/images/blog//file/remujuwujagefilijefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhenganquan.com/userfiles/file/20210531170329_1689159948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nslttda9raiffi3c9e2537pmns/fujujizakavom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/175924623c29964fca4ecd105398fa38/22962669842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa874e1e8d---nekozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e2620905b5---90009419658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/vosusuwurujogatesig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toshiba-center.ru/uploads/files/vegegimukanasesejub.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_off0000e2e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2E6 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 688a02ba92e2b0f58d1e0865898290f2ec042ce13748dab13889511ada04eec2
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB70 16504 bytes
SHA-256: e1eff8c015ed542a5899633f4395bc6b052e09ea201baf0929c3aace1e7a0c3c
font_02_sfnt_off00012662.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12662 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1