Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27acbf5ec3bb83cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-08-01 19:16:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 51be6f7c6e7edc7203890589671d1c8a SHA-1: 4fbd9365cfff04c7d321bbe332e2e739c3ede095 SHA-256: 27acbf5ec3bb83cb71a9c7e98814feefbbdaeb3e1941e633c311c9f55e09e973
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with spearphishing attachments that lead to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=r+j+d+full+form PDF link annotation
    • http://latexindia.com/userfiles/file/95410118359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/fibugomifogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benhvientantao.com/img_duhoc/files/xufazudodasukulisefarewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16387e87e06a0ee157227c874f472146/wekid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://em-mould.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/worukusufegugufirifixuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e7003c92f---lemakivuwapepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/367b22887232c393c0b7cae2df2bbaa3/sowikim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/tuvuporesaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longvu.vn/Images_upload/files/51364231977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/978f993b1679b11f7a4cc688f1653eca/sodof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1df61ab798a80dd69713498dd5cafd2/girosameboxolavokirobeger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821ea13d671---sevuzak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae6941aa19c---dojukelivatirukevilaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d9128a1bb---61073298159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084af5e9a8dc---gowasegikusobid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c96d02f487---rikizutabufemon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v56pucmogqkhub73o7q90gem2g/89374007493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093ceaa21e70---98229031587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishiodua.com/contents//files/vasusurapobika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/zuxagoluwuluvuwasakone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robedecreateur.com/img/files/togilozak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f940.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF940 10032 bytes
SHA-256: cd4137dd31f6a89abda596c23de04ab05ef703f1fca9c2c4d163523d8ecc0951
font_01_sfnt_off00010f82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F82 17324 bytes
SHA-256: 1a449c62970c9044c3cbd9f54fa53962f5cc83423290d0ee7523b943328dcc2d
font_02_sfnt_off00013cb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CB4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1