Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28a1ac73dede34af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 05:36:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d5972fa057af5742569e32eb5ce2c407 SHA-1: 300193b5e80dd09a65d3af8af373acfe3573c460 SHA-256: 28a1ac73dede34afaa8f781d43e9a855c5b5875212be5cea1f737e563a771afe
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, forming a link farm. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a high ML classifier score, combined with ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', strongly suggests malicious intent. The primary goal appears to be directing users to potentially malicious or phishing content hosted on these compromised domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ac61bdcc84314858758dea2572a6c9e/35012697102.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.info/contents//files/22432406302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitapiti.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/famorexakegide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f967c078604cae784a1ccce2d4e15f5f/17877351450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608289861ebf6---danikeriraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://officinedesign.it/userfiles/files/zototadipopesadosopudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/lipaxeloxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christschoolblr.in/userfiles/file/66346124191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/29711358708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n58ivgmf0er1g5tq8momg5mjq8/54844993160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tdsns.ru/userfiles/file/gilagolenawisamorip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pijntherapie.be/uploads/files/45225249664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a37ecbb27---kuwadogobisesumin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://g-shocktou.com/user_file/file/80437553666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1970lions.com/clients/5/57/57eb30a5877ba0c7834658d164206012/File/roveragapativo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgekoldun.com/var/upload/file/birutuzebejazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8875508e288b51843815cdfe878e5949/silufegab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611bd08c5a119---72442628476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jx4d.com/userfiles/file/fizotesadumonodutar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renebeumer.nl/userfiles/file/tefonufedanugox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/kanegigaxujizom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/3123982738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38c80c3a1ccc792345c41f0ac770fa45/dasuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reaga.net/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mojuzoraxetikuler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=gestion+por+procesos+definicion+pdfPDF 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_off0000c1dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1DC 17468 bytes
SHA-256: 9a7976867f8ed83a57c1a9d88fb1d52e0b10b35b900876bf946e3005556eeaad
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED95 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 5a0c28042ea9bcee276ec6bc4f6afca77f65c8c8b760772df71b079af6718789
font_02_sfnt_off00010569.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10569 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1