Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f427701d2762927d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.1 KB Created: 2021-07-20 00:12:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 095444c783f90258bd41ab31a60313a7 SHA-1: db63855453ede6f841677f0965d3f38bbd435eab SHA-256: f427701d2762927df98e667b7c16b8abd8752353154833afab922041f8dc3272
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content, aligning with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080e6588fd60---27401058800.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wccflooring.com/userfiles/files/15006925831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/46713336399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e4e8e2110e584b33e1a9271159b5b1d/7117261707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://towa-aaa.jp/userfiles/file/55289316463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caribemed.com/userfiles/file/gufewupodoloxagafabor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0vh7nneb7k3659g8212u159c6c/jawab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattingtoemrerogsnedker.dk/userfiles/file/52439705307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cascatai.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37954619000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarylaspalmas.orgdocumentos/file/2810173525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bo1q6c842kqtjeqg55m7k4ei5/77870540420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utpcomp.ru/uploads/files/92524434827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/14510960819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/loxumubabonenuketuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c07c98e7bfd6aca351cf6a7516c1eb16/gimatebamemowasuvovepele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c430141d3e---mitizedev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082155db61d6---14636254166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jejuecotech.com/ckupload/files/77604672040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garyjetcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb754bcb906e584e239d0f7981e81f36/53482191155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/odnl1iv82u87g254qp8ljcghpd/63414997004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sb-78.ru/files/file/4187398854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=direct+tv+stuck+on+acquiring+guide+dataPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000107b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107B4 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 9d318c01a2d2761920125a4f51ec7b4811675ec9f6772bdc0f70d8521cbcbe12
font_01_sfnt_off000120a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000138b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138B4 18324 bytes
SHA-256: 79429e21bde40d29b7fda30e3b6baa8e5341d9bad9c4c1c01a5e9f94c70230a5
font_03_sfnt_off00016936.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16936 16164 bytes
SHA-256: fd494554c7a7a2c4488382a78096c535ff133766c7221992be4f6a58596b2467