Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b627fcf364f75acb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 19:46:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2d94b465325916a5302232919332e0b8 SHA-1: 4b39fbac981afabbd588fa098e5b1636d57a6c41 SHA-256: b627fcf364f75acbdef05406d10e7c71e2e13b8cb324392df91d44a04496c331
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a distribution mechanism for further payloads. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware delivery scenario.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://hostsolutions.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/86931123579.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/18723065718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebuzz.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99908060159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mextro.de/upload/files/nokin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativi.brtim.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/vexanadubuwitivezejoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chonburi33.com/userfiles/file/52679161452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mftelhas.com.br/adm/Editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99004853367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://collinite.pl/userfiles/file/femewunajivopuwikupirur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soles2walk.cz/data/file/62854332682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldanang.vn/uploads/images/files/kegunowufalepisuzame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsmtrontractor.com/upfiles/file/20210902063237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/1630518541959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myxroad.net/upload/userfiles/file///25553302108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong.info/userfiles/file/91832825374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lg-palette.com/upload/files/lepubejipat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d47dea8a7---kimitor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambresisemploi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13924871722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161344fac20b7d---58830648506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.displaysdirectaustralia.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89300522628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidneytracker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xebekusuwibopufiwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavo-bazar.cz/userfiles/file/figaxesezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renebeumer.nl/userfiles/file/gumariro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf9839dc6509ef831ed67ae0decb7fc6/34232330555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://budgetparking.ca/admin/uploads/file/88882982665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=bhagavad+gita+chapter+12+pdf+in+sanskritPDF 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_off0000d9e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9E8 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 5846b726d69e76a8fa70a7d4fde7292e31f36d0a7cab68bdd2a34caac570f89c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3C5 18216 bytes
SHA-256: f45e17682398ecf07d75f15040440246baba0112140cf6990557d114da18874e
font_02_sfnt_off0001226a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1226A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1