Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 288d0cf3b826775f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-26 02:36:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 21e07fd5fce93e9351aa7c303b66369d SHA-1: fb365e47918daf0c01d5bc1d13af214cd652b952 SHA-256: 288d0cf3b826775fa92fb4c341a45c2ecad1c890a1de3ebc9a0c4358af4d340d
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading a payload. The presence of urgency and download button lures further supports a phishing or social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://projectmine.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71674051338.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210619140906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c22bcc1c787---39814222818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/17967113098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorp.pl/userfiles/files/11868147639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.umadai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64928958292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e504a149ec6---wikudisagenutuxudubegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.retorika-zidar.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/xemasagipebebatelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martonaroniskola.net/userfiles/file/rakupogotivurexotim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/wabariwibesavexajotoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/133afaa5e4325bf4c858290f9b1b8a0d/zadababubebasek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725ac05347f---24015812823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alzubidi.com/userfiles/files/deziduwazudoleki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orosweb.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tujemuxadovelugugezojebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/981929ee3cc7cffc8d01278b2e99fe4d/9604321466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2374c18ae550e1ae67a4398af088f1a/lotupafolilefobuvek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/62790294788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compufoxmail.com/userfiles/file/faguvijosape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skonasystems.com/userfiles/file/34594831355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607734a7bb6eb---46473048941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assotechne.eu/userfiles/files/8892887238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d653e5046f2---juwifasekijidiludosiporar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidrealestate.com/public_html/userfiles/file/bexezegigogosatajekuxavor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbf369d33ba---xageso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=airport+city+hack+generatorPDF 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_off0000e84e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE84E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010060.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10060 18056 bytes
SHA-256: a7e5e47a70049ad7dc2b8cb4b4aae348b7f54fbd7e26829db7a51620dc42eef9
font_02_sfnt_off00012ecb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ECB 10628 bytes
SHA-256: dbec469110cbe30ac04495198994674ca7a2235b2a95976f677821230d5713b5