Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27e0a1c3c3d3391d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-07-21 21:25:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: af5c70c5f6a6cb27fd163fc514b7d9c0 SHA-1: 607a14c9ccf72d6e5f321940df6c2195fa63ea85 SHA-256: 27e0a1c3c3d3391dca0496add3ecadf86301929b55127b0c9584b1b0b5ac29df
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing or tech-support scam, as indicated by the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic. It presents a link farm on potentially compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities or the delivery of a secondary payload via the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9907

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7e9a1761f---vefubupalokiziraxavudusaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dmup69uu168u0d7oamtd1cvdo/59421581379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd9ffc74a3e25d6a89263a9bc236f07d/21259350479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmp-familienanzeigen.de/cms/files/jazawofivaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2v7ff1f5kub8kk9dm09onmqiqc/11009111023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd1d0a82d0be8c90c6916e1d7a6fa356/ragutagilolesokopigozav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gofvbq59uluki9m6vll8b9obvq/98588126674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/65880319864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93992867990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rdag6o898i9m2cfjprcp01qjj8/moxepudozisemejavavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverkarenisandby.se/UserFiles/files/78098668151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melz-feu.ru/upload/giposenotag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecf9fc03f4f992d40b0df59b1aef7184/59467823223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/84563915259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepdaitruongphat.com/upload/ck/files/zubegat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzarosiscarampola.it/file/barodutajalojan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c55a09f4389939cea4ab05b1686f60dc/kanenowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hv0dechigj66kpr4grmbr6ilg3/75687416943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c706ad52e---19339936819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hirurgija.me//files/wegubovefobaxujexiwojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad939a29ebe---91684715218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://controldellaves.com/app/webroot/arxius/file/nasatiwokixamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derfo.info/resimler/files/85219835901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vugkkdg0rhmsdgonkqpabkfp10/xozijuziviwotupemasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/047f58d0eaca95946ee4b921e67322d3/37342942792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istocdukkan.com/userfiles/files/ranipilisotapudewakuxilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.impactit.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duzezowofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=tender+evaluation+report+examplesPDF 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_off0000c1b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1B1 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 913088937fce693830279c25b8eeeaea4d7c217849e7648f356c5a109fc5e41d
font_01_sfnt_off0000da87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA87 15856 bytes
SHA-256: ab76b33467db94a1424beed38c1bd15bcd7dd4fd6fb13dc3b840237fd336caf1
font_02_sfnt_off00010350.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10350 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1