Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 228b06afcc51813a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:23:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c908d4adcc81f93dd5db61e96278b488 SHA-1: cf8279ad6028a8d4ac9f79e886b80ca7e1130892 SHA-256: 228b06afcc51813a27ebc83925c9b26ea240e5945bafdb228628e3e1100ff4f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content or phishing lures. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mba+after+mca PDF link annotation
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5556900878a5abcabe8f42e3898edaa3/20253814428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfapilates.pl/upload/file/69966068513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharasuwanee.com/sites/default/files/file/tesabiwaxexefamilaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/fugemufebifetasudevosoxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b4811dc61b0bd4eeda42a8e3a501d8e/xigow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/rebixavana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20fd9d7cc09fd4d86bee1580f73c1859/30071882489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/ramevukunomepow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a03e0957f2123d877ad6f5833dac1f0/fipoviwapok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11fae8035aa7603c6a729fbb6581fcef/59453352103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q9hl0g499rgem60s8q0c2k6nh3/31889475731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba776b9de5c---wasazof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naszymsladem.pl/upload/file/xurenumodasekunajatog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/77250240984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098bcb865a7f---49879251493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c1c521c8c68b4d9ce8811b9dd82911e/gepala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/roxejetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f6c0d8edd---54368386562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d20946899bf---tosexopeguxuxajoxizesodil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e71ce76f0---69468525443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kjakunps7rbdkj0e8u4uglq23i/39676146265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbc35c23be645ffa7feda0c115f09120/kakizofemegijag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608012e7a166d---wiposuxovewudin.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_off0000e87f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE87F 10100 bytes
SHA-256: 7518ea6138f448525ce9c47650ebb7a71dced5d74019a80f010208fd371f9aef
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF1F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011731.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11731 17452 bytes
SHA-256: ac6aa33e8ddfe96b36d63f72e7807dd8b45b31e1ff4228f6ab953f7466ce92a0

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