Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c927369342973435…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-07-19 15:32:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 2aa2f7ba5ae857ce39dc00c6e50f2022 SHA-1: c9eb6522c96f82037b7936ca0b2345d1881a0f20 SHA-256: c927369342973435b7ef4090c22b8786185af57b997c92a2e7242f723ee829ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to other PDF files hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a link farm designed to obscure the true destination and evade initial detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://schmitz.cz/res/file/850047489.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lenaoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/daletilawodixosiwivos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/dedilomimawovudufew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxm-hosting.nl/img/editor/file/97665305135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee7645a0132---nixeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iq51renm757kmar12uvntb1aqe/20668667002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/158a97976eba58ec9d00959d24d7bd5a/wujumivuzapilubeguped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/wumekidubefimukamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/polakigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/magagifag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2v3ioe26gfpaggo2ut4aoi2212/wixilokemoperonuzefopiteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dusunceokulu.net/resimler/files/pedutirefivigef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakshimi-kaatsu.com/user_data/packages/default/imgfiles/26832225821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/3369609759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fbcb4c945e---towofunemarovopunafipefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075af1184704---sififasonedulevusiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.info/fckeditor/userfiles/file/17935086745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb8f092a600---medewexepafizelurazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///71475154346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74530ccfbeb858f6886e417d2bd495bf/sipodonisubixonitesezire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a92d7ec35b3---fuvijojugemexopabokuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e1314e41d---48018323190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adc9bb1c40aa866bc5466229df138d91/44339167470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/472d03b218e5a9fe406e072b759a3d35/13818021268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=present+simple+examples+affirmativePDF 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_off00010b85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B85 17584 bytes
SHA-256: 2deb845193e3619810d223376668aad32187d316516d78b4e03754993b56817c
font_01_sfnt_off00013954.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13954 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001516b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1516B 10568 bytes
SHA-256: c2ecc25711806bea262f7b6bb9ee30e3ac4b4d32cbf70d0f78c1557e4245541c