Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 028a101a272847a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 14:25:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 686111215def1ab7228ecea45138d488 SHA-1: 8d35cbb4d32ffd5b1e0ca055ae6b94b8d549cd2d SHA-256: 028a101a272847a1e620b8f5ec09816784c28fe6e2bb265161430321e9e462a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm for phishing or SEO manipulation. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=boiler+control+system+engineering+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0a3c065d075837081ab97ce1889dba1/31333239618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/4435986467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd487d73d05---molulipele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af3b0e76d8460f910fe62ee873640f3a/2012368796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/tejuduxemuvadubotubakere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hglobaltourb2c.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210614_1EFA47C17444ECA8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kilincsweb.hu/fileok/file/15665343767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38180e7e828278ee7d30ad575daf3ab4/86575810682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghioroiu.ro/sites/default/files/file/90942265431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fe71ecfb7---20613754088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41e7bf96342465c21252b4ef7a9a0abb/69995226722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaandtiarasottawa.com/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/45424052519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090060cd408a---53901159401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43277d29a2---turipifipebakoxemavixaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3ab00c941b---2826075706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cfa3b40ee655c62da96f64fc85800d4/dotifobepuvatutamaganiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2353403cf73d79409367a7bf17636d3/fumekudugaziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab3ff476ba1---kitep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af4d0cd0e3---kavetujiwomow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7d36690277ea2d841342f2bffabf389/72202417561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59d210af8f26941bc7cfb443afb9ec9f/80085082632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a06055eb3263669237a0c217778d9cd/80197887048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubaimotorcycletours.com/uploaded_images/files/30022777572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/79620408744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8de0918492b406583a34fb87a3fa1d2a/18381436204.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_off0000f59a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010dac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DAC 16700 bytes
SHA-256: 0e141d7752b004a4a8a157e1c4b3a61f9396180d3c25d759216a990228af8be0
font_02_sfnt_off00013925.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13925 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 3b4ce31ed8caebf560eee2196b8cec1fd3c07f5e93fc4eebfff88067a12662dc