Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e27cfc1fb290543b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 04:57:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 18092c7f555f3ab3ff0ad4868d129a52 SHA-1: e084912ae0eb1e69a22f05622a4d275befef7c95 SHA-256: e27cfc1fb290543b37611d5cd425d318b2528d6c3b60a4f90c928d3275d39fc0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics suggest these links are on disposable hosting and potentially compromised CMS uploads, aiming to obscure the final malicious destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=optical+fiber+communication+by+gerd+keiser+5th+edition PDF link annotation
    • http://yourhealthyanswer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kipuvepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laarakkers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95352193408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/kesaxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tugrabilgisayar.net/resimler/files/repokewawanoxapagudivevub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytekas.com/UserFiles/file/fiminakibojefipaxenuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///56961830628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b600ef041b6---53560314927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohsclassof73.com/clients/9/9a/9a21b0b253f7c4eafe662346d237c286/File/62499042825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/78999748947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/gesekusuxowate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a501520d25d---48054099184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abzesolar.com/uploads/files/21916596216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03143eb942903831f6c8f19d5ebf491b/veputis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fresh-cherries.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29790463306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/44860571166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089424b916f4---vunixodejumugepafiwewabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd116c94a6---fipefezelemegubomivafuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/jenepipil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vefiwatan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d62de94ffc7---50735877597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laibros.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/bimugesupezen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe54459a8d715657e59bb902aec0989c/welulofule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/637ae95ea2cacac7b33c6a1deaee374d/japadiniwugomepojipavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cdd114e2dd6189ffce2fefceef38f3e/xogavipitax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949191399b1---14522793770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5cc83ec281---81420041696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnmarzillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pofirasub.pdfIn 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://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_off0000c6e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6E0 11672 bytes
SHA-256: 222268a823cf71e311a6fd8cf73c9f4ee1390287a883a2db8700125ab549f94d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e22f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE22F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA41 15492 bytes
SHA-256: 140e80c8b1c4a25fa375624d10e0e71baae76021c92de089e11e637313d91884