Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 280350a58cd6dd2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-09 11:57:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1003e9ccee80a73354dbf121e79f020f SHA-1: 16bb179361ef195634d67c03a4b0c9ba2a0e808d SHA-256: 280350a58cd6dd2fdb89e5b48d90a2b278053f3b37c8f7bb972a0472a111873b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be part of a link farm hosted on disposable or compromised infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The file's structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF designed to lure users to external sites.

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+os+advantages+and+disadvantages PDF link annotation
    • http://kompassztuki.pl/Image/files/39711691407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f21d969db---59145322970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partner-support.net/user_data/userfiles/files/bojewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovituruguay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63719459584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kluchar.net/klucharnet/images/file/15230371901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunrui-ti.com/d/files/20970930800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rana-international.com/userfiles/files/mukofibowekiramivuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xycrusher.com/d/files/muxomizevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadelupo.it/userfiles/files/nojokuzejaferovol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/95879704681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svltv.in/userfiles/files/71680203510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webspace.mysdam.net/images/newsletter/files/pevexob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viviapalermo.com/userfiles/files/60616741460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnmindia.com/outscapes/admin/ckeditor/uploads/ck/files/sogapotosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robustbrakes.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/75465909629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/27625092197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135c7627bb6c---fumubopori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132f7400de2a---63322243021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/22015621675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinruily.com/UploadFile/file/20210908004832017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoachattn.com/image/files/12053324941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613425dc8e31a---sirafuxetemuwedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwarbitrator.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/46662934294.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_off0000e88d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE88D 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 3307390db4c6c5525fa236aa2a8b906edbe23de08023dea81b2165c49dd6240c
font_01_sfnt_off00010027.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10027 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011839.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11839 17092 bytes
SHA-256: bf1dec72224e2c8072c546bf5d5b6cd22b0391f71495a13841e6f7d0e8e7d3b5