Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 280fc101d443d558…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 00:47:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: f4d4fd064e12b867df06984cd12f7c0b SHA-1: ab075169dc77cf5a69ac605db2f7b21f9c20f923 SHA-256: 280fc101d443d558309e2854ba3c07c02348c037f74f632c4c2033a057ad3dbd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classifier flagging further supports a malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mobdro+live+tv+alternative PDF link annotation
    • http://namadagaskare.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53895838816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teifsepahan.com/files/file/bowewadijepelowukiwuzoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartopack.com/Images/file/91528895419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwgulfport.com/uploads/files/jovipaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafichesirio.com/userfiles/files/lamexozobajavigob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161329ddf294d7---17064478621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautydiction.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5030697558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://we-plus.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diluzoxoponifexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141ef56584a9---mabibita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatrangpalacehotel.com/app/webroot/upload/files/80192857716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeorden.com/media/file/divusowedufosimemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-con.ru/upload/files/66021505856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potravinyav21.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuwomipila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otworz-biuro-podrozy.pl/userfiles/file/lupirugatomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/538f978151f7f577813ded57f767d107/zudenuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emke.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38754425072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.totalblissbeauty.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10767471812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136cec32c36d---82731926956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kangmeideyiliao.com/uploadfile/file///2021091605421735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silverk.ru/img/lib/file/95169667826.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_off0000d7aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7AA 17704 bytes
SHA-256: b0b73eea64571ac43fa73d8b831618d07eb96e599872972444b5392d3562d019
font_01_sfnt_off0001057e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1057E 10272 bytes
SHA-256: 0da83ee715ee1be98c78dbaa7e536072bd9ac4785e18466df5c300d44b6c537a
font_02_sfnt_off00011cb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CB1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1