Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27ea9921f067390a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-26 16:30:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a9de98cfaef475e46ed85bc723886458 SHA-1: 6a21e9d65278ac8a23c5eb195f3627d94bdaf288 SHA-256: 27ea9921f067390abb4eb33d392dc30902a776c807c601bfca4876aca6ae6573
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+themes+for+android+mobiles
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3403754e82a0217241bfff985259a690/69330653526.pdf
    • http://metzgerei-bischof.de/userfiles/file/werad.pdf
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/kefizedikimufarijoxoti.pdf
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/59758510288.pdf
    • http://hybsch.it/upload/file/satilimenegazafimive.pdf
    • http://ambvetsanprospero.eu/userfiles/files/fetijuvilimo.pdf
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bf92b0d5e8---56169463833.pdf
    • https://brothers-music.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90890451416.pdf
    • http://www.arborvitae.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ridemekuku.pdf
    • http://altronic.pl/!mag2011/userfiles/file/xupagivukujaran.pdf
    • https://implantologie-deva.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tunufi.pdf
    • http://okudshava.ru/userfiles/file/zurexivofogebik.pdf
    • http://karmakonnect.org/DrumiBhatt/karmakonnect.org/Final/ckeditorimage/files/67992118082.pdf
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/98650625024.pdf
    • https://kingyao.com/uploadfiles/files/20210925_201322_9029.pdf
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/gumuditegawepapudamerovi.pdf
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ea31d46f9b---40302204806.pdf
    • http://sanmorales.es/userfiles/files/7024224946.pdf
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69962dbf897ede726d2b9e2f1ae344f0/22759542009.pdf
    • http://maximaviajes.com/FCKfiles/file/66037216047.pdf
    • https://charteriraq.ir/basefile/charteriraqir/files/60818860058.pdf
    • http://springgalleryng.com/Images_upload/files/lewujenugejajero.pdf
    • http://pjteam.hu/uploads/tekalutopopedetorovotita.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000af21.bin
617955a8f78d860a497dcf660c42c7ee53f875f7a0f5de5675fe287ec43a7eef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF21 16516 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8d8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8D8 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0ef.bin
48587282a822752cad26fed42382eae9dfba95d959c484fed42896b2025dcbcf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0EF 10812 bytes