Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28aea8fdaa3e1e4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 17:32:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: cbde7ee5a0e4403da3027bb8704659dc SHA-1: 9903d97e5ee7a86c41480b59df92d594d8dba605 SHA-256: 28aea8fdaa3e1e4fa0223225afe681fa7ae0f1a0ad613c9a73fd7dd13b7dbabc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+change+icon+in+android+phone PDF link annotation
    • https://www.ijdsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22937848516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phucuongplus.com/upload/files/18492816135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morecoredesign.com/images/imageUps/files/25751935208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteservices.com/FCKeditor/userimages/file/xoneminukesafizalugujeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141fcb027837---99439629536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jocoseatee.com/userfiles/files/tudup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c1f3de8779---xabekiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cp155cj8se7p6h85ecpog1g2og/57515152784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bauarch.bg/files/vowozelowapamezez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132d8f95cdbd---12778376362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://form4concrete.ru/pics/cont/file/37044899698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birutelorasin.com/contents/files/salufudefovapepagunututim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1d910976283b38d03bd1eb58c12cbda/72967353136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141406a7e500---42294886119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f-okinawa.com/img/tmp/files/23818551048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.info/userfiles/file/kokifureresivelogoluwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://used-machinetools.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/gamogidapelitanolel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harrodsrentacar.com/public_html/userfiles/file/rinutifaxidibuzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijacr.net/assets_admin/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/76058238941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alley.52886.tw/uploads/files/13197842308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cf4a12a56f87ca746d0458b2afb3023/sarodurewarizogazebajija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614162d1aac11---12545683435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.net/upfiles/file/42540231808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artinterior.bg/userfiles/file/lowexubotonefasudomebemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisma.ru/files/pages/files/29154284943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/54992057985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000df19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF19 17960 bytes
SHA-256: e75a72a489a30b60a22491e93a1825a248da7faa92442bf8ee79d82b195c54b7
font_01_sfnt_off00010d15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D15 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 2d67ca6108acbd980856775d2d91fff264b8c26a5cf113326c0cb9917d8b9948
font_02_sfnt_off0001253d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1253D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1