Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28509b848edd38fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-06 19:54:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 4dc04903879493310213bafe3aa8b806 SHA-1: 27f87b5c082fe593340ec535f3afb397a42a3648 SHA-256: 28509b848edd38fa6c86d0b97fec1521619da33f289b9b8bb617c0776a75ebb0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to numerous other PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign, where the initial PDF acts as a lure to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d87ec7d1c8e85c6f3802db97c6c8f317/31170705404.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/428ac257d5e8e5578274d46f15177191/88425638824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25abe7ff28---rivagilekapefusuxiduzag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vyrukrc.lt/userfiles/file/57063980356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb59ee4e59f---76168724471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/99457276956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpworld.hu/data/pic/Image/file/bewupedabaveja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a023f80fcf2---24379579811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f228814fe227d94b0a7bab9a30f706db/laralefes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puppiesjust4u.com/clients/c/c8/c8a8d0e690f73854b1e7a5fbb9521f82/File/2779880424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17ba618fa4762ceaf5e8537a9d753c64/situmisukunurode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/jasutoxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://summithighschool1958.com/clients/71652/File/62387418859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/492d098d92efd119c2b86659723fa81d/53124228929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812908c1d07---10518442725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhachoxebus.com/upload/fck/file/doxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075adc71f92a---6284638068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/96645441164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vrvq1k3cipjjmee5trosqp0j21/xawobevajafaxusexere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/8787219449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiapelhrimov.cz/UserFiles/File/97968092320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ubr0rk1im3sg25iplf3dt77rvj/90425700164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fontaine-eva.fr/userfiles/files/nopigudugidug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/211011fa68d9ddc595880423a5954a26/karininapakativ.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ace+picture+framersPDF 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_off0000f375.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF375 10452 bytes
SHA-256: bd2f878b954325db57bef416e3370c99def76817e4ad60f0ae2c3ae722c918a5
font_01_sfnt_off00010b4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001235e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1235E 18216 bytes
SHA-256: d02b6fb81d040344eea9e50e0420f21dc1af53a33644b276cf783b21b8bde55b