Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 228e971e9db76df8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 02:04:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 5c604cd462333a1c4721e0116966d1ae SHA-1: 1d5d539911fe9bc1c13af7e6212a1c82860f8735 SHA-256: 228e971e9db76df84b0c3e4c83392d133fbedbc10d74e4e4a909c06382759c6d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users through compromised WordPress sites to other PDF files. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0igds1432cstpf9v0tanjudfed/4446687800.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7587b8e15a---89742734034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/16716612244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06f32bf3a7d2c65ac2c4638dc8eeabd4/33713052234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075542e6a47a---zosojekajobiferaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-9/20210509215514409020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/8418340682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapikowski.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/54259903234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08fda0e10017220d895d0b9f18e2242d/jububes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b7d57dd51---59503672793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa0c4d9287---23347624652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5dc16537a---22629665944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meandnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90008273554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saatyapi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/80114706267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75632e0e4b9877ac3502290f6b75061d/semikuvezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkhigh-tech.com/d/files/6553519006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebfd25b0981261e11b29c421f55497c9/funuliwoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/72335753187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefencedocumentary.com/adminfiles/file/gurazobibadevin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1945bb888f90cd1778425ffe8493ad19/56191833029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rurisnet.org/images/file/jigipupovalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/065c08435d28a4924de56d3f2278a921/joruwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//voberubizus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82213087999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=the+sum+of+a+number+and+its+square+is+420+what+are+the+numbers+that+satisfy+this+conditionPDF 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_off0000eb76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB76 18148 bytes
SHA-256: 4dac8dfc35d5960ff8444da3b815531d8977827c2b931aff643a3c854cfd7d27
font_01_sfnt_off00011b4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B4B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013362.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13362 11564 bytes
SHA-256: 9b24f737c679a491cd3e20e9e08ce06e61a75b667341244b9a32a5a28ad5d0d3