Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d27f9b092a5cf943…

MALICIOUS

PDF

182.5 KB Created: 2021-06-10 19:44:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 50645a90de89f352610fbc484fc17fa2 SHA-1: bc73bc34a11d65a6e4bee7637c82ea4ba310ef26 SHA-256: d27f9b092a5cf9433216f8141476cff95a8279935fd4b1fa6e75706f85f2319d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is a PDF file detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely attempting to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and 'Qt', indicating its generation method, and a search term related to chess openings, possibly as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=enciclopedia+de+aperturas+de+ajedrez+pdf+descargar PDF link annotation
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f14cb99152354b532808bd34f62c5a6/giruzuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vpp7lobvon63p72br98p4nbg5b/wopupofupomojepegutef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae212ea4c2---rexukisadakukovenuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083369a413d4---ratelidogifesofifibomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51bd6ba6f2c2904d27a05b4236a3bced/12007681003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b99e305acc9---sawunodutobovuxenizedatuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908c9972077---seretemoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaoduocquyhiem.com/userfiles/image/file/tuvewarebizetawab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98b17b56f877762f746ebf43dab565bc/10849373614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garyjetcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eddaf80d18d342451c978dc00008087/tusoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ecd82d2ee1---ravuzirumoxivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb5d576d07c---9405817295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210603_6DED7BDCE78FFEC2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--k1akb4c.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/90224605030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/tefadiburijexexumonis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27134e345f6773980fd2699d154b5f97/96853791568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00028fb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x28FB8 5404 bytes
SHA-256: fcedab0563a5a393c2a22b7e9ccf82665f987776d66710d944e86f9e67413131
font_01_sfnt_off0002a23d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2A23D 12400 bytes
SHA-256: 47480ee621fe3692d1acadfd89a6bc39849332803ea2857106a5fb519c5f76bc