Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f27a2a7b11892507…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 05:02:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: a7a43844483007ad94ff34de8abcd559 SHA-1: df48d47019f6d48fb6fb4cf71827a9231cd6a93d SHA-256: f27a2a7b118925072395ad6eacbea7800c054d320900f076341c2d05ccf09ef5
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a lure to download a password-protected archive. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic strongly suggest the document's purpose is to trick users into downloading and decrypting a malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d11888122---gamiginulalir.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/dazosejuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ada2169d1dc7ebc809e41230a72ca80f/gokuselemikokopawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/209430cf2a4b47c59c2943370f617764/86862163497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d00511839f---41939594771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4846bbcfc138559a96fa684a2e62ef24/zufujebaxopub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dd7b3d52da---xomonuzivagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728d3608306---bojesodoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb2c4a2b3e---kikebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c74b70b30b7---xuxinovujiwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/romeguzulavab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d4de1f1e9---76181372813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dd69749368---lijalujadivugunagawiluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mineraux-et-lithotherapie.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/nawikukikumodiwepuxowat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799dddd65eb---sorawaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.net/contents//files/zizoxefuvatevelosid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvhs1967.com/clients/a/aa/aa78cb05297cd93d8a9ab6bd1eb8a3c4/File/kegodipasaxexojap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bookatowncar.com/userfiles/file/36229525922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condicionamentofisico.com/arquivos/file/76104408600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/42634763610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608085b7ea67f---19970628729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=hiren%27s+all+in+1+bootcdPDF 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_off0000f003.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF003 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001081a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1081A 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 93cda74234679e0ae30ef51c8a87923647a19ce643dc646f19d0f356b3468519
font_02_sfnt_off00012068.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12068 18648 bytes
SHA-256: dd827494782c535c6d3445d565c9945479e119cefd046ecbfdfaf481aa033dfd