Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28040f1b32bc6117…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-21 05:21:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 2ebb4f4c26d1acb863811368e2d13e52 SHA-1: b1e6fbf7f97f00ecc225991e1ac5576ab4b070e5 SHA-256: 28040f1b32bc61179aeeea5338f4a65f9a292dcdbae485ee4cee9ce4b40f6f9c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and IP addresses, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • 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://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8e863c8e8---10516097862.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vitaminyplus.eu/files/file/58827466904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608457796f287---76366343447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallahi-sch.com/userfiles/file/nalobiveperak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/14465190820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lammermoor.net/imagenes/file/99932931332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607587e0c5910---totapafutovoraver.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://247christianity.org/fckeditor/userfiles/file/377485196531626532078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srldirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fawivakijuputebapebewek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a699c36e14b---65639997242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b527e680e5f8f1b94312003e7865d4e5/70400162238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5131ed9628---87093828650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/79873430325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctmmaximoravenna.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57548218417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.com/userfiles/file/27988299155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roughriders66.com/clients/f/fa/fa96273273f04fd2a06feef12b1e4d70/File/xaligur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.net/contents//files/kuvufuxotesarigirer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.eu/galeria/file/53678940734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ced1122198---8854204094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilalyapidekorasyon.com/userfiles/file/xadivabarimalowogogox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc2411fe8ccd3aa15723f3eb379e4248/ladat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipagents.nl/uploadfiles/file/48423972488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d6465e643ae09fed78f698bad5169f2/59670553360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealskinz.ru/files/file/kadipin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fittbikese.hu/files/file/mozudezeruri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vawododelevaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=watch+the+witcher+season+1PDF 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_off0000fb90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000113a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113A2 16860 bytes
SHA-256: 5e1d604ddeaebf0d2ac8c954b9c28b6c80ec1205d95c4cf808cb0177da5caac2
font_02_sfnt_off00013f95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F95 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 3a81222a7ce4ae6d2daf8bb7894b76efb03547b6919d8fe4dfa1dad201f7b5c7