Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0228e1d19b99e365…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-08-17 02:14:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: f57ee792c6f4b30841baa7781351880a SHA-1: 226f1ea8e7ac70d36dd0a7e42ab16c0b5c0c2950 SHA-256: 0228e1d19b99e3657115562ee03cb08d0a2985b98e272dbb8c17cba2248e9f42
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users into potentially harmful sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=o+hobbit+uma+jornada+inesperada+filme+completo+dublado+youtube PDF link annotation
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecl4l1ltrfjqe0vm650ln3hj1c/10438324180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haltia.mx/sii/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zisobofosuviwinafilet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morganmethod.com/ci/userfiles/files/julujuxenafenivujama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cg9gj45p0r2ev4siovhses2k7p/bevorobagonise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d2a701bf53---67529586126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/dugeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauben-buchmeier.de/kleinberliner-schuetzen/userfiles/files/44772943097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/ropixefowuwexajudemake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/92021764857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faktxeber.com/resimler/files/tadib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/046249215a3819b042e927339d2a90ef/79514230580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803fd3be631---34055476107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingtassinari.eu/userfiles/files/zexebujemeteve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b800c478429---ronagame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820e44593e0---85891165726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattosushi.com/uploads/files/xalevovegurunadulefufel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/pepomunaxewaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rybarict.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dasiferowufamesota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd021169a7---bomot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3cadab4b70---89842714781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7465072a076482c53a50d9cad1107cfe/foledodumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fac58c17cdeb60d3672563aa264a4e4/mivojufawuzomag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimhoatra.com/upload/fckimagesfile/xupafibuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01d0528b688b07116358a62fb130b11f/92451925071.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_off0000d2cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2CF 11396 bytes
SHA-256: 38bbdf59240cf84cad24bfd4b4fbcb42d5eb2bceccc899b879297687288ec9f2
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED43 18176 bytes
SHA-256: f5880efcababa58ce6a430c70c832947170a18381c71605d5aac435734ad02b9
font_02_sfnt_off00011a46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A46 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1