Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e427531c7d2e768b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-08-10 16:48:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: fc1b571b4040806e2faca0a3f2d3d132 SHA-1: 9967241b6ac03be1c3c8d571b59c67f11a7415b6 SHA-256: e427531c7d2e768bfef1a16ac38dbbff1c72b8307b562f00380f8d420509d86b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and potentially malicious files, suggesting an intent to lure users to malicious content. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a pattern of using disposable hosting for link distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ef56b7526450d791825cbb377f5d024/26164133087.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://saleskerala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sulix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/670dee7983fa61d832a60c7e949b5fee/jawugak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo-catamarans.de/res/wysiwyg/file/13673330029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b15a75b6791---57966829016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autobedrijvenindex.nl/images/uploads/simawodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcm.es/files/galeria/files/29100739791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdtrend.hu/files/file/54493499527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100b9e43226a---veburi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapikowski.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/sudatuweduxudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/335cec60b624aa1e525463160a9b38c8/15098317389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mds-horizons.com/upload/files/89435552983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1fa4232896074694d05435c88dac339/tagomapolizokelixariketuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesontario.com/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/21112940654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citra.cl/userfiles/file/damozubimesiwagawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/22928949295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadsoda.com/UserFiles/File/xojavik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/48033003101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b162cc3cd64131ce72280c130edea07/tidijobemegujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saito-ken.jp/userdata/file/kaxefifuwomef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9f77a70c696547d5f2f4cf8eed339c0/zexuwatikunuweginajujew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a23d9311fc6---davabixexesoramidowiravo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/zowudorimoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/377f8c4d619b733218bbb5e347e85c64/zofolujososisadujisaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74c5e6c740---20582303326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+are+the+boy+scouts+expected+to+get+paid+on+the+settlementPDF 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_off0000f56e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF56E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D85 11492 bytes
SHA-256: 55d70b60b278158349b9d8fb80950a3e2a6fd4719bd5e1dd4b782866548d15c7
font_02_sfnt_off00012826.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12826 16960 bytes
SHA-256: ff709b64d65bea266a68cdd3cfa46a5c5ac0c927b92345377fc0c10004cc0f6e