Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f27488b6bb4d7db7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-08-05 23:46:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7a4f3d5b1e8edfb48e5fe8c6401b9532 SHA-1: 71d043b3ef2df9cd206236fe5e1d3161e1fe8e8a SHA-256: f27488b6bb4d7db79d7b5fd283c3a003bab5160df5c10f289ffecb10f58cb698
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials. The embedded URLs are designed to mimic legitimate file downloads, such as receipts or vouchers, to trick users into clicking.

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gst+receipt+voucher+format+pdf
    • http://hanarotalk.com/userfiles/file///nekejawifaxes.pdf
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210705/file/16254991686342.pdf
    • http://cw-cut.com/uploads/file/87871055931.pdf
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35950465899ad32fbded95e44f9d1175/20525538361.pdf
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad7ec8d3ae1---95759735391.pdf
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ndpt2u0sdbdogntc73db518lro/poloweragu.pdf
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/siwogawolebonenodotenuruf.pdf
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hj8u3sg753hv69q82516do2akd/81483534420.pdf
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f3efaf86df9a01b4387dbd2b9476774/jefodoxixalawuwezelan.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/klefvicop7k579jh43qbvjjbk3/37317818854.pdf
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d942ed4e4d694bfcbcf83713bf89d7b/luketogeboban.pdf
    • http://niszczeniewaw.pl/userfiles/file/72256165823.pdf
    • https://my-natural-style.net/upload/files/tovubujipavujubefifi.pdf
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb88fd680eb---57765573560.pdf
    • http://gabortech.com/admin/file/1266707910.pdf
    • http://asclyziarskyklub.sk/userfiles/file/65475649512.pdf
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/gatenika.pdf
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5170ac0baf---25770618396.pdf
    • https://sheenabusesandcoaches.com/userfiles/file/3742605787.pdf
    • http://ozona.pt/wysiwygfiles/file/48430875878.pdf
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/53792171016.pdf
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/njke5c0625tmcvj88etheh2ejk/25422060364.pdf
    • http://marasintl.com/public/ckfinderuploads/files/gudonaju.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b4d8.bin
a8ec3641001b097991dc969697d683fba7db3009e9a5893fc0c7f9f4838a2658
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4D8 14296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d84b.bin
554f90d37a267c36c5853dac4fd2d69c6a8b937ba37d5174b38472640b67289e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD84B 10940 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1be.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1BE 16792 bytes