Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27bebf7f65018f1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 23:59:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 3418d55823d1e31b811cfe2b35b3c337 SHA-1: 42f016674a016b58113aaff30383865ff069ff40 SHA-256: 27bebf7f65018f1d5d84508719d3cbd632668b3a741280649e85a1820c95877e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The presence of these links strongly implies an attempt to trick users into visiting potentially harmful web pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=quotes+in+brother+and+sister PDF link annotation
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ffdacd3cca09ffabf3a4b71a44e78e8/74455585233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://builderall.info/userfiles/file/fanure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://border-inn.com/CKEdit/upload/files/17111679658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tongdaidoanhnghiep.com/app/webroot/upload/files/47913100567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bennyhigh73.com/clients/3/33/33ce00c6a031cf3b17a3dcf69aaa7594/File/6708073825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbccb928eb---75062918621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b418397c6b2---pulutarutebajuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairview58.org/clients/b/b5/b5cf5456a34e3fefef15e35162a7177a/File/66518390681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9d90685f7---vewenujamemubuvur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/2971983985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/divifemoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ab9e5ef75---55306898762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8bc7936c87---jegawedezeras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/10519279852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/15568488838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078eb9877a74---zopunuwejisumopes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/ropafekakevegevepepene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb8fdbf9c3764983dc5c89c0b03eec7c/93003461285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4ba1baba42---42577796225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olimpic.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92356212336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/diwuniwajovipajixovunoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/437508e944fc03e1c56fc83e42d2c328/xulixozesedopawipozazuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/smqhjfbt2ujuchadofbn0j2odn/73634842039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kd63faijfurk6d310ogbraom10/72313942477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz./uploads/65881481814.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_off0000e26d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE26D 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 78e6a97acd542a4f72581f90194528a4347f8a90e4b27eabbf8e6c369cfa0e68
font_01_sfnt_off0000faa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAA3 16804 bytes
SHA-256: 9fd8e0bdd9a45071c0daf05abc87ce2a0b69f3c5d82307283d6ccd99c2354c6b
font_02_sfnt_off00012621.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12621 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1