Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c27d6c4d8acd8af6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-06-29 03:58:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1cbfccd30b5218e0ef3ac1f9ff1d1d48 SHA-1: 649516eb4a7de3ec1db4c98df4f1d4bfc6d15bfd SHA-256: c27d6c4d8acd8af6b2bdcf866ed7963ddd8fece2ad8ce3ada54f872b0302aec0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bake+chicken+wings+at+350
    • http://fittbike.hu/files/file/31358812478.pdf
    • http://xn--eyt274i.com/upload/files/30118342551.pdf
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd6febd8ad---36899724877.pdf
    • http://accountingworld.in/singhania/downloads/file/witiserokugetosonokiduta.pdf
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ovrj88peujhn0kev0cocs4k7t4/51892523378.pdf
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gf91im3v5b8r0s7ve3d5a1aapd/24649962343.pdf
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac5ef21ed02---69153020141.pdf
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe9297c8a3efc8053ae3331fa82fbd2c/5244663918.pdf
    • http://muszempilla.com/files/file/19840723906.pdf
    • http://alexforstarlight.com/clients/4/41/4125d763bdae894b2c088b8c4c0f4705/File/mavalotezus.pdf
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/3587169731.pdf
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c18dc830cb4e568bc3520de6a65d5870/besedusivesogizolovob.pdf
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd4bc86429---41062249865.pdf
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f90cg0i3o2d4pt4mvqnqvj5aca/53832374847.pdf
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ongcke5ifb7b1c5bo0ef7ake8a/82562160879.pdf
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607384a277e4e---tokivepevu.pdf
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85f8e46d14---77605697228.pdf
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60483a4c9d9a4304d882cd3c5571ae7a/lizarep.pdf
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4v8j4sc57o4dphutp1tistq4h/wituritevepikes.pdf
    • http://landpas.pl/upload/file/50683571584.pdf
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cd95873de1---30745974575.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_off0000e6d0.bin
8bf0f5c776776b3df3d518dcd0ea24881b064d54b83bc42d625fe3694a1909e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6D0 10900 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010030.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10030 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011842.bin
b905729439535512b6c070b1f905889e112b1870226e8044a497dc7737410e06
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11842 17048 bytes