Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28a20071b932365e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 01:15:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: bdbf6cbc8dd119ab77855ea8d39bfd3f SHA-1: d54825d3c13f78e3381dc100dfa8fec3e76072a7 SHA-256: 28a20071b932365e8821e00d81aa8078333ed2ddc3c1630e15cc5ed7609f2b9b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection to these external URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ogr4e1pf9tgv8emgu9ic78hf06/sedudam.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078be3c511c8---lezobupojijeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc-lampang.com/user_img/files/63682092310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b7b9aa01815c281c8ad69943bb68651/xejabove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36b0798e8ac825a166f77c3aea9e6079/91758283997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d7f1374cf8fd94f00de95f002dcc716/49165059524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775f9bc90f6---dedapupulapiduzipadufamud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drukarnia-skawina.pl/app/webroot/media/files/melidenibapomivarugijana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c8f4216b8977a7551c888a2613a1a01/minijoguwuvevulisup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098e16c41a36---rifijosadesesetajumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608feac591175---lavikimuduvomawuranazuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artin-intranet.com/ckupload/files/lararuviloxevesomixofedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/zorisez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddhj50lffnu4g1nflkgsatpfnk/26311486296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/879odib4gdrpr37esenmi88ap4/boguvasopof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pi9k9sdo0j0mj9o8isr0cqb846/puvatifodaxakaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/18049123398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64bf6366958352480744bdc485979e29/tizexami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5rlppmeaavqc1jlhgaoqnsuih1/37156881817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/17930039512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topinsolventa.ro/userfiles/file/motodujebakurutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ssiu8unedvk98e8pss743tut11/76968395101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67a8a579813c7f61a217b3e682c82f2f/latagixagevonulebuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+break+your+sternumPDF 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_off00010173.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10173 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001198a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1198A 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 7226644a6bcc1be7ba8cd2a74e2c83bd1a7f70f8024cb5e7852160a45b4bff67
font_02_sfnt_off000131df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131DF 16968 bytes
SHA-256: b93420e1aa16efee1289bb053c16d8622eacaf0cc31ed1bdfd73f39d837df29f