Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 028445cda0ca2ce6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:14:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 493912123917770781ddee8fbb7f56b6 SHA-1: afc4bed9a66d4fbbfb835ec59515356980be8c8c SHA-256: 028445cda0ca2ce60e7138d222910c7f66dec9a20b405f771c033def69ddc449
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The document's structure and embedded URLs align with techniques used to lure victims into clicking malicious links, potentially leading to further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/bulef.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/pamudazedudaxusawironelag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6df48cb785d5c4ed6f6e60eb68442b2/80838529756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cbbecdfe9e0f94caf48176fc26f3688/wariwubagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160895f140a833---13390523970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a52495458b---83743915119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podushka.by/files/files/zidomiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltprof.ru/userfiles/file/tivabazuzonigojusub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca7c11ee10---77628170453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/55428582545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88956350f469ce3ed0707f6efc502227/xazaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adoz.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58701108452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/zawupubiniwerojorulosolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/315c9105505169c99e85903609533ed4/48480039573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af6747e319---zemikopovanoniporijot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3eklngfg333u58pidpr2nelsb5/woforakapaminenoxefubad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/kasosetobuduzoxudigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076981c5b9ec---13330992438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d192d8c14---69015641086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/jobovoxogevipomefona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4j6t5ph5qn97k38s8n00cji76/23084996447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdblue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93658806030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/86154356293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coumert.com/images/file/68560018766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2r-auto.com/uploadfiles/file/2021071820471973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a613800fb9d---gitasolatavazetamutowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=can+the+subaltern+speak+postkolonialit%C3%A4t+und+subalterne+artikulation+pdfPDF 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_off0000e0b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B3 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 84df30da9410bd5fde5508decb995394a08a2fa33e95246cadf69c4f3a2053b3
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA28 20152 bytes
SHA-256: d4042036b82504a9db667fe7739f104e99b5e98f28b28c903b77e660b1945ac5
font_02_sfnt_off00012e97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E97 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1