Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27ed46dc9c8d2b6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:25:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8699d03a9e28416a617e431166509c70 SHA-1: 03ecba9db0fb3d0811754e5e5d5d41e49ff80513 SHA-256: 27ed46dc9c8d2b6f9bcbdbc6f21102b07c3f790efa9bad57ca9513e5c0d28c86
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF structure point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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=supply+chain+management+strategy+planning+and+operation+solution PDF link annotation
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/46316166726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikeid.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28252718958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/34006992827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3da59025601753a3864aea27758f934c/ximag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo-catamarans.de/res/wysiwyg/file/49551796697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4c22727ba---rexuburatarikugatomene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c1ed2fa81---domefuwijatilaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garystrike.com/clients/3/30/301ae0ed988f9237e4cb8f8c41f6cb36/File/56142551919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///10727390935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16129b213e31c5---77370198829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0989f8c9c87eaf075489b75ac485872d/50818908997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triple-a.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94853405250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/473s4l56n9qc81296datia3omu/4908940463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/12696308409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b892edcfa5e---bomeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51131af18833872e2cd6e0a08196be8a/bulodobowoxogelediw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e55105d4f08f0e8722f8adc1d4c6945/burikodejenil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc70883b0e38f0923976e5ca6225cf8d/65822497136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3645afbb8816685cc10bfa800ddb2987/92052810432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saptpadi.com/files/file/19871857399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847fc765baa---824679237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logomarcanet.com/userfiles/file/76438571519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidwoodmachine.com/d/files/93918526458.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_off0000d4cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ece1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE1 18332 bytes
SHA-256: 60d756cc876708f5fcc25546b763baca4968a25e16ccf468aa689e29463b7f20
font_02_sfnt_off00011cba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CBA 11252 bytes
SHA-256: 486a0cf55a8abf97bcc1cc470bda3dd91db53ed5affbcd63aee095d102ab4543