Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27ca2f56a8dcb360…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:30:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ab7b4d74c7c1e69499511ee83f2a3a16 SHA-1: e3fd80f7367104004c4867135008fb83f520fd62 SHA-256: 27ca2f56a8dcb3606eeeceb49f330d536081e61a9510a6f2cf4c050b123b6184
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier returned a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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=lto+exam+reviewer+tagalog+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/2357508377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0-50.ru/userfiles/file/doloneketajof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b25ed647ba1---3709360218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/80942658974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/jopapojagig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esz.jp/img/editor/files/33442777004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/kigiwopuxejimoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investmentskillsgroup.com/images/userfiles/file/15845543895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semagro-msw.ru/pics/images/file/84459252460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hertzlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mowegikajiraletu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/14526323158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/nogisibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b760212e10b2e34bd3cf6bdd6d44c267/83487502957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/defiwakitedanisebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/755005102d906327e62e8544546ba156/gogitevabijama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hagelkonzept.de/userfiles/file/zunelajenogazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisserarm.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/lukunatikupiroxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/18005450453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1344f268e2135ec532489ff549e3c190/vutitidufonuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/dokonixixevobuzolexasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cayxaotamphan.net/userfiles/image/file/putavebirefijuzudekobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/bekefelolig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/53887049401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f536f580a5e---tepixoravig.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_off0000dd0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD0F 16964 bytes
SHA-256: dd428890035c6af63647485072d062fe1d7dcc16317c42ef6c900524669a372c
font_01_sfnt_off00010886.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10886 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 114f64a4bedaaedcdea0e6e0c3efd6e5a876d4b033f9e751d467e3ad7e5b9e9a
font_02_sfnt_off00012138.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12138 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1