Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c27e12ec98921679…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-20 12:43:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 80fe25bab38635b67c5b69dfb6f7a109 SHA-1: b1841d0c22962661064906559b6831afbf56684a SHA-256: c27e12ec9892167962f536e4023f533d87c6c16c37ac43771d809e0dbe0c8e58
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating a strong intent to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The presence of embedded URLs suggests an attempt to deliver a second-stage payload or facilitate phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=most+popular+free+android+games PDF link annotation
    • http://elijasprojekts.lv/files/file/fedesowedovufud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/57658009190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artsar.pl/userfiles/file/46837019341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dealershop.es/userfiles/file/takobudupate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolionsfarm.it/userfiles/files/jatetezufaxojidakijon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tovicetour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_F35358DA167DD5FA.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3eyamaichi.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210910055419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibanghanoi.com/uploads/files/fivonuzakifixubaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istruttorecinofilo.it/userfiles/file/wuvefilunizawojisuges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moriefrusca.com/userfiles/files/91052433168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peak-experience-japan.com/images/blog/file/16834178886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sksound.com/userfiles/file/41131774795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipmax.in/chipmax/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83053197099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mama-care.com/UserFiles/file/gutabukonak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136b6fcac04c---fikajapazetamav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaukitchen.com/uploads/files/68774325806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotnewsmd.deca.md/upload/userfiles/files/69962719691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aa5alfu.kz/file/korogir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148464805a88---riwajelid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karatenarrewarren.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53199375309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lui4473eh2cud6543oiflm8uk2/89945176027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.net/contents/files/foriponu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stmarys-perthamboy.com/upload/File/68295612863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projektovanje.info/userfiles/file/xarutesavozipudomurabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://211.129.1.225/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60470100953.pdfPDF 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_off0000e67f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE67F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE96 10936 bytes
SHA-256: c32134217cdb33e4d4b6e927a0115c69b4b22d2d918a2d77c4abe8ba22409775
font_02_sfnt_off000117b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117B9 17664 bytes
SHA-256: b4f96527fbb8d1c8c51c095212391711f010941eef2b0204eb23206009d02b1e