Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d27a2ba3044dd6f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-07-17 21:44:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e7694210634b2ca7d995edf993b138a0 SHA-1: d67384265722b585d975d777066f889a9afb2c77 SHA-256: d27a2ba3044dd6f76a57ad6813ef8a26c578d656e9be9997e1f4dd12187d153a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to direct users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://icsbc.ru/fuploader//file/77053875156.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/83693858815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4a8b0928060855a8ef1205f201514b2/povekekimikozamumes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolasinprevoz.rs/slike/files/xizobunevodemuzanuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa6f0b06b54---degodag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncetrabzon.com/resimler/files/62569142307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2717aa24ee---vivovemebidekugivajug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72b0d296e9b07cc278205e1cee002db0/94165099282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab922f892fc---nalabobuvezeguxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnovum.hu/downloads/39576411387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntep2008.com/UserFiles/File/jipasipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akazwaeiw.xn--p1ai/editorfiles/file/14134790017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db41c87775---7629471990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f63dc3d10---48227167579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drlanda.hu/user/file/35254682842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608679131d640---fuvigovowokefipodokekiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinstech-inspect-survey.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/jotawafadelutojaxewoboliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c0b5c5f24---50178128630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geofer.eu/userfiles/files/90873690042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pt2-turbo-j3t.com/contents//files/38378544324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1parareunion-club.com/clients/4/48/482fc251494624b09083a87f212a12d7/File/15712912759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73559844309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+add+text+boxes+to+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_off0000e482.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE482 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC99 10468 bytes
SHA-256: b277592b9315ffccbe4662e50af9706a44842123b1b12918ab50a80dc5c814c4
font_02_sfnt_off00011458.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11458 17260 bytes
SHA-256: 49c779e848c565513b3f2c133e012474b482799354d6cee2d37b707e393e164e