Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd27533e59c189a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 10:31:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c1d3024ff45f6b3586313a6511bc7645 SHA-1: 757e9cf4302e85972351a08891e7329645a9f512 SHA-256: fd27533e59c189a7976b6eebbb30775749c897b7410c4676dcb01e6f777cd0d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. These URLs likely serve as redirects for phishing or to download further malicious content, indicating a probable initial access vector via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73b5ef334aa7c97c2e716fde4382dda3/17749454924.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/57017519048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/debemepojupaginojudixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/937d9d0dcca0e763be02d0e7af285cac/51721515961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d66a4d2ff5---nixunadigowebele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbd412ddc4---rusiwuvusizipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/64362214574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehoron21.mn/uploads/files/kakufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/okj3pb13jit23v3b5chi0gn2hi/gidewam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vasutaszeneiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tamasiraputaromumigapot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ugrctrani.it/userfiles/files/pamokejeladom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/niwotisazobawidipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/31061751382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandersorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/31139614149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnogotrop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nusebojupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synthecinter.com/userfiles/files/fasamisikufave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andana.us/files/files/41207311602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/56471472514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37cd06cabff4802e1893a1179a3d162c/43481528490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norilskgu.ru/userfiles/file/18900143962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/604eff9add9ae1aea37bcb8a232e1ee0/19247302831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stin-verdon.fr/assets/Image/files/funikuruzususawatemug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/35685936879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarant0g3l-turbo-h1t.com/contents/files/nimafudej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=schuberth+src+system+c3+pro+manualPDF 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_off0000cde5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDE5 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 4a05710689b84d055022825c1c8725798b52c9821352eef6d452c87df22e0aeb
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB6 17012 bytes
SHA-256: 700e0675f6c1ed30eb041d1f7e698baab23e6e9f3fc31437a33c65aa18ec33f3