Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f28836d2ca7ae5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-08-05 21:50:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 094e1756be24ab002f6f3cf419d9d984 SHA-1: 2f1808aa1ee65957f38335bbdd2987dbb99e982d SHA-256: 0f28836d2ca7ae5af7964b597a17b3bcc514219634504527b225fcfd059da8e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 http://ck-kutnahora.cz/gais/image/file/31599943951.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/28844938525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b35d625ae75d6e3261b13471fb190275/getuvaseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/35372383155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b0d6ab00afb9ad72ed4ebbae5e36afd/jadaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a280986330---rabuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://master-br.ru/img/file/19166409538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lionkingbali.com/uploads/file/juxipopetutut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kccmaul.com/files/files/nusiperu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081014508b1c---bavodidavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b266084e462---tigutuvebiramogujefixewud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habrit.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99080440851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://o2ashop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55767753553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/kigekodomuravinogeromax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2718facc6b---bamitizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/idkdoagn23oahgpqud1012v1mu/65022225470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f309220a6d399fe00ded93bc2b5afbc6/40061185212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parejalecaros.com/adjunto/upload/fck/files/gurenod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fdef10410b---31280812535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811f47cc270---tepasaburijubinaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/108ggtm6ltset9o2m253go1ta7/jabebodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manilag.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210627_B72814D25B3CE604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurouniversal.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ropox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promobryansk.ru/userfiles/files/sosesuvefonulisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkontakt.pl/dat//file/97404070629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+take+loperamide+st+marksPDF 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_off0000f6d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6D9 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 1f19ae54ba07365866facc391a4b9882ab894860b502a93ee781c412b4c1c67e
font_01_sfnt_off00010f2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F2C 16208 bytes
SHA-256: aec90deaa5ed9f08d14c2fbbcb8443684e6f840bc49efd51e19b8e129ee34215
font_02_sfnt_off00013902.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13902 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1