Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a28a719cfd9e002…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-09-12 04:02:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 8831c167639cb1a2748c3597ea17c2ce SHA-1: cb7e5ef28b7aadca58af5f9d3e289c6d20ee8a8c SHA-256: 0a28a719cfd9e002011e0223448b60fde69de4449128117f33fda8fc8bc1bbf3
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links to external resources, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading a secondary payload. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c9f0c1086a3a4fb0613d9e54dcc45ba/50696478168.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139d53c4f690---71711638173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dj-venci.com/uploads/pages/files/wefoburulafekusisusawujaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37836fd4f3a275dcfadc0f5ebc0f2409/sigutinixejikotaxaket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137fddcabe91---98883748931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growyourmoney.in/userfiles/files/verodejitivirinoligo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1carl.com/userfiles/file/43568429430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slovbau.sk/test/userfiles/file/fixuzuxoluturu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pixel-pro.ru/upload/file/rexeminunesuzezakirol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dobski.pl/userfiles/file/52665860817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/23552197413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/76175765259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bikipvuikhoedep.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/3319005727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comptables-publics.fr/userfiles/file/tuvujemoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drjou-vc.com/upload/files/19607734660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helenhotel.vn/upload/files/16789543608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rux-thai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49319271455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhosting4.net/media/file/tubasufuwadaxigatatawon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eyela.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/31557318566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-cosmik.ru/sadm_files/magejuzeneran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aias.pnu.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fakukol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613198897c791---4310544869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.125.49/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210905_161732.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=windows+10+2021+download+iso+64+bitPDF 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_off0000f22d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF22D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010a44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A44 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 3694bf7118f27d199c8f449cb6d45984e8457180c49597ea39a8ea696de7125e
font_02_sfnt_off00012348.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12348 18096 bytes
SHA-256: 4f2eff42d8bb309ef7d187147454341d78ad4e8b1c346a9af77cad71be74f520