Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 028a78c10ea9e8a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 22:41:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f388ee82061a70bb29770ceb7a499e08 SHA-1: 6c660bdc687ad75fd95ee39c098a57cf73cf2686 SHA-256: 028a78c10ea9e8a566a462db297871993b8bc374721cd0d2237948e91bda4963
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, likely intended to redirect users to phishing or malware sites. The presence of numerous external URIs and the use of compromised hosting indicate a phishing or credential harvesting campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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=eutrophic+lake+means PDF link annotation
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c940e9bd5c6---86251024126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylpcl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15862379548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d023ad7583---59292775992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a397d63d6---27555636987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ee10b690061351ac34ca262b0435350/tanogukabana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6fa0742f5a---raxozolis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appletechsolutions.com/userfiles/file/xorak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fmi.lu/userfiles/files/jazive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35hls108v7jhmqe6p0lvl7e8bs/varimuxopukibirenakaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949b0f73c9e---96090078601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haus-st-otmar.ch/userfiles/files/zuzadisopujadelugav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf5d022770---vamejogivawefumegoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d7bc506424---xigasenexiduvigevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084fffdbebc5---lulanuberikorisukenit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ocqh3ja2kgt3c6skfnt0io3a3/89519862453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/380891fr1p7u47mjou357p6l64/80217125475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097828480879---sujebirez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://navliecky.net/userfiles/file/89781596484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mvn1rgcdqfitnjdk487ltqdld5/vukoxuridedoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079bfb8549c4---51227835778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ff36a899c---zujupinuxikuguxome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba980539c9e89d15f8b0b0d8b2c2ec05/78164872102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pescepiana.eu/userfiles/files/dasujubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b246e207439---jisebabimifelixevivag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dffed105cbf8c2757c11f02223d91d2/38917028794.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_off0000ec67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC67 16596 bytes
SHA-256: a1480c66d332b41ef965a9c4197259105dd7b82a992fa6b0e0a256dba345b5fd
font_01_sfnt_off0001174e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1174E 10816 bytes
SHA-256: fa3abbfd2a4b125ff0b2c6c84050dec428e54cb326c99c8ca4b4ee6c69b1dfea
font_02_sfnt_off00013011.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13011 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1