Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0e27651a4b729a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.5 KB Created: 2021-06-19 05:44:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 51228385ea5b21a8548ce1acf6c79c55 SHA-1: af3c37e016d52e4f7f37ecad9490ad0c0fb2f7f6 SHA-256: d0e27651a4b729a56b89a8dc6a06a74f809184cda47595876414d914f914bb2a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to PDFs hosted on compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish for information. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to software downloads, likely a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g43ekujep0vri0442jcq32mtju/joxojejufaxowuletalotokas.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://baovephuongtroi.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/napesirugixovepubefizemut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusromeo.fr/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/wilugitufokafaxesarakutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/74066269836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c04358b673f---54253340760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/61404591010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722d9ccb542---navisuramo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/zakexori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bca2ce3b72b---86508845441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6coq5j2urlj53vf9qqhu9i8jq1/pelixito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607200cfecb0e---beluvufijedetutomomepido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835bff5924a---vibixexulapipoximunas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c3716fce657054535b42681aa004aee/pemonevobipowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b85794285a4852cc4ee29fb5b1b9a68/37393399149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pk59d9o7vdkm1klm788kg9kqtl/9860238675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd750a8b174b22b393cf35944622da0e/jelovamosajexaluravan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a90a9b80eeb---91692784215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a12c68d65---xorokokozaxepizojiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=among+us+free+download+for+pc+windows+7PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c3b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3B6 5636 bytes
SHA-256: e5be12a6e51a815c751b12f6f5ff08f7f3611311d4af8bf735dd181371d5ac64
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6E5 10132 bytes
SHA-256: c732c6ce86c78e881ec36d70f9a9ecc029f862871f04c3f74de6e32d755716dd