Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0728db77f25e71d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-23 19:55:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9ff25423b049f42cbb6294b632257b7d SHA-1: 14566bae42a387ceb021590df905ae6adf7428cb SHA-256: 0728db77f25e71d09d0f2e69c78cd89ed738e7345cd6b7d07d23e9f042192d84
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The file's structure and URL patterns are consistent with a spearphishing attachment used to lure victims into clicking malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+converter+pdf+to+epub PDF link annotation
    • https://amzentransportationindustries.com/admin/imagetemp1/file/93919519682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fleshlight-tw.com/userfiles/file/63434866068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinanxintiandi.com/userfiles/files/65915189044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brazilairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tulete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja.ua/userfiles/file/91334126556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.asia/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/83433200579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/13843304898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vishalahospitality.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91586363930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siblom.ru/files/upload/file/13487380757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synhbio.com/upload/files/sesesaluzevuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourownadviser.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29714248122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.orthovision-lublin.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lusepef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmsenior.org/file/files/satetefopakobeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hmgfinance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suzimusiwidolibukazupen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--psg-9lac.hu/files/files/26455346258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklama-v-sochi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/newodemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivekanandbawwa.com/userfiles/file/14706622536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c080d43c2a---58927314216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat2.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vufomipurokitefisiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614001b44218f---ripefejorosavukukaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larrialdiak.es/files/galeria/files/43742851095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artanuji.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/litumuwirejufol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipca.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nekazijapinuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143041fadd86---duwomijulinerodired.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportschoolindex.nl/images/uploads/19811579174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mogilew.ru/userfiles/file/88994811048.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_off0000d27c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD27C 10672 bytes
SHA-256: aa74fc03fcd53d690f62e728a438b56009bc0195b9f65f3ae123bdde8d67403a
font_01_sfnt_off0000eaed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000102ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102FF 17404 bytes
SHA-256: f9ae272f9f1921dee756adb80356b58ef6f8111b6a947cf8d0c3344642025c90