Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df27bed1077e1c27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:35:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 6192a83f43feae9e1f9db938d95894eb SHA-1: 7804a7e44ab1b029e938c793569c41f35dcfeb5f SHA-256: df27bed1077e1c279716203d9f9c51ca5a0ef75d47ea59755c99b0e716837dd9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or exploit vulnerabilities. The file's structure and link farm nature align with techniques used to distribute malware or conduct phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60ded0625867ea98739b7022805fe813/gomabisomufozo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1544778f60cf19bf78932f5f63a6e9b2/witilonewixuloxilidor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10682cf3e4015ccb161115e02bef0563/xuzazezewusawoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/juxamujowitonebasuzitowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf837d10183---debafupulolutobojaleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074fa71a39f5---fidika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d96e0c239---nifebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webbuilders.com/files/file/doxokanewubafufofaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bd4e6a0c00f72fa99c11177ba3a41b0/19738555246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/98760584907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hcqrm6euemkfvs287prspg7e70/gawuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajur.rest/uploads/userfiles/file/26435804835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akazwaeiw.xn--p1ai/editorfiles/file/65468510278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/vebiveboxoxutojujewir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seashoresilverlabradors.com/clients/4/48/482fd9669fb3260065120a60ccac5e48/File/2413751547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+convert+to+excel+downloadPDF 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_off0000cd77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD77 17008 bytes
SHA-256: 6e42fe3f6e0bf08f35a219324e2695094f6e6eb0aedfacabbb6b1dae80e4a6c5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9A3 10464 bytes
SHA-256: f69b7a7a99b2a3f072b9700c91e7da45acfe64cf262df7bc8571d5e1c2916d61
font_02_sfnt_off000111a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1