Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28212ccc8eebc300…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-07-24 08:21:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e7fc4063441ed9b6a59c25344f68a0e8 SHA-1: 13d98f55a5e075541eb8ac337d4f7bfe9240701c SHA-256: 28212ccc8eebc30085328479741b3e5c208f7cfc50cb9b3f08e8c3a41ea15fbc
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 compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with SEO poisoning or phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcfma46tjnn9pr6u9eb6b3fbs2/fimubu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://flardochform.se/userfiles/file/46892527005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d00c5633b7b---1652247126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/dudarerademukevemivibuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/10458989367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/kusawepaxenunoziruteduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arenabilardo.com/data/_files/6602834086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/34406256666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab3620ce9a9---37638081784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160916836d1ff5---25460419330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3034436f3782a23b8c3266b9557cd9a3/viwukofuturufik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5527417c2464933d6b5f72c47eb8d72a/76088229938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/87736946305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamatudarbai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30131304295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mim2010.ru/userfiles/file/lasifij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/65678525420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba2ea65773b---ludefikikina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maginsaatmetal.com/resimlerfiles/sedikaxike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/rizusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608524e2dde73---28170384896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/81228850737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/50567928032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba252f1ef0f0d884ce583b29d278ed37/nikezudavoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e287e5c8ba---xirizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23e786e089887fec01acef843f978e2f/wasixesesimadalanunigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=adobe+after+effects+cs6+tutorials+for+beginners+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f253.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF253 1996 bytes
SHA-256: 9023abf06c63fe3b94367c5fef4f93b3b91bc86d52f9a4ffd393606684fbe810
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB7B 11268 bytes
SHA-256: a3857c666b2e1e386b441fc12b1fb94db779317501c42467e824992b105f6352
font_02_sfnt_off000115b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115B1 16612 bytes
SHA-256: ea2ae0b3deba1ef13d04d4a1e84073491948b4ba21ec9793adfebcaa693bc6bd
font_03_sfnt_off00014100.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14100 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1