Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28ad3c2743ab8d84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 22:26:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 118c8b309a52c98757dc5c6ddbdcfab7 SHA-1: f91ddf3eeef19805039b2c71ebc2290af41bdf18 SHA-256: 28ad3c2743ab8d844cfbe2405841da2a8f149b7eea14e35922369ed217198ccf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall detection profile strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc0c356ac8d---begezagefozebigixaxi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb788006ef3---fikasefexefotekibok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6faf284ce---54766680362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwarbitrator.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ladojomisufojokiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nmglyxx.com/userfiles/file/luroweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54e651b3b2765f1fad457b2dff40d365/42736301358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db10e9fa6fe5338faf1a30ae674f0a0d/nemimokatowovunitulam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609868f86436a---gajugivezunoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvit-bk.ru/userfiles/file/vunune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isemya.by/modules/ariol/static/ariol/ckfinder/files/10895582765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a574ed23b0ac227ce822b12027f85422/37117240961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medical-1669.com/userfiles/files/36712012652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b295e57abbf---46670734555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dvt5hao9js14r5qcf9gpmobu10/50797794292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w.radeton.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60398357777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/fetopumujesaluxufapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/73943990887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kmkmekanik.com/upload/ckfinder/files/titigemuluduli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivier-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lididunubamonumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161270d9775533---54917451784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbfljr5hh8i215aaocmabqe9t4/42518230037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://observatoire-omic.org/documents/file/65647506752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-14/20210514084903929086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/deg3kfv883t3lqq457dehpss30/53389414945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=reveleris+x2+flash+chromatography+system+manualPDF 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_off0000c7db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dff2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFF2 11472 bytes
SHA-256: b6e575f62db59d0726696d001bdcda313e851255ea807fe202e1998c619fe5de
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB0C 16824 bytes
SHA-256: 3ac451350b65619b1b7aa8d2552db09d26f82e46c50f5641e06a3f2533cf9da0