Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd27fb2a4f08358f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-08-10 18:48:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 927dc9237a20d2b9ad2146da4f5a4e5f SHA-1: 2711332409629c3aeef3a2891a0ce81500865803 SHA-256: dd27fb2a4f08358fb90fef68b002c90822729faff4b2224adc3dc6972f8bc33d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan variant. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/loditumozenagu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://urdu-hadith.com/survey/userfiles/files/29334084316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natursany.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/68700762322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dlknpe7ooafl1nts0te403iu7/57306893820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jegluji4q7be6lpvdljukcqdbe/woguzakekofekajefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36321o6lme3kg4l3kdjuqogpbo/84492512420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takipcisec.com/calisma2/files/uploads/luxewojifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vj51o0v4sktgn4ks3iaacgsa3j/mezeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoskola-scp.com/files/rigerowujumonaxizanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/zoxugop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f1dac058f---sabisesufusugasemupimerem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirai-kankyo.com/userfiles/files/78480211638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607268ca7afb8---wivewav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bosgo.mn/uploads/files/mizog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajihighfields.in/userfiles/file/83675312528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bordadoindustrial.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/miwunenawox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb2e8b837b5d3c800914ce9dfc3ce585/bavupenigigibuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7080edf15a929da4890f59331bf39251/zemeveraxogebisajuzusur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteplacementagency.com/uploads/files/67024386584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clap-bas.com/userfiles/file/37031688504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kizkulesikizogrenciyurdu.com/public/ckfinderuploads/files/vamilakevijoxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.de/img/upload/file/vofolozajesivigemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1e2b50806fd8caadaaf44aa2dbb03c6/bosurisewepiferozerasad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc6d939d9d490d0a023e02cdec24c0e6/45242423575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qzgj.cn/upload/file/povakugixatadexuzutigitus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=sample+forensic+psychological+assessment+reportPDF 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_off0000fe23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE23 16912 bytes
SHA-256: 2f67ea1208130e30edf2e309dad344d4a00b2ffe7ec0a8d7decae235e2d618d2
font_01_sfnt_off00012a33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A33 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001424a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1424A 11116 bytes
SHA-256: fff0bf530cd47dcaa9295b1abeb0bc497d447474cf6112221e3f737f217f4a41