Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28b081d9e7b98a41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-08-19 03:21:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4c51052df6fd06de6819f05f8fca22b7 SHA-1: 42b2cc60eb19774d011d14e25fe7b439815709f0 SHA-256: 28b081d9e7b98a41e74f38b6524e3fd2ef57275a998c7216a45b34cb8242be1c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it is part of a phishing campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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.
  • 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://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44ba6d0897a5298a96a2c0bab058ad27/wefozokiwazemutugumefu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://astro2sphere.com/admin/images/file/9623689183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vote4dannybarry.com/clients/2/2f/2f5d4f67c16906f9b09010289963de11/File/rizavipunagowevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetraeng.it/userfiles/files/62610070045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56ca8f492ac0d840bb95900acb7ee057/2194369774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharajohnscreek.com/sites/default/files/file/36159980249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e40b2ac09a---bimezoduvugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c25a2bb0661---sexumutozutefuzidadine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9682a057a91ea935879dbe823bbd4e38/pewavisemeparo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/5311425049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlikefulproductions.com/clients/875850/File/56431056975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhuoer.ltd/userfiles/file/vixafoxudadegoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakhoanhanai.com/images/files/donedanubinogowitimobavur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faisaltowel.com/survey/userfiles/files/11813077011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db1c7ea786a26bcfc05734335bda22a0/titudafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/kijamiwolulaxaraxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34988fd11f7cefd2bb4e6cfca532a874/vofuwobaramumixemaweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/sorolerokubosavedeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekopaczka.pl/imgbrama/files/99290943750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acetechnology.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gfd56dmt8o84em92d6h1cmla2k/36228229097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master-service.ro/images/file/dozonezanaraxubabugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casabresciani.it/uploads/file/76733632392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa31fedf5ce---55410601541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biographiewerkstatt-singer.de/userfiles/file/32873535702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+draw+a+fashion+figure+step+by+step+for+beginnersPDF 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_off0000fbdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBDF 16768 bytes
SHA-256: a3a05027c9e8e556093f15f2410c9494981c278a89bea7f8f9d810bd17e83aa8
font_01_sfnt_off0001274b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1274B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013f62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F62 11164 bytes
SHA-256: a4c4a26ce6ff350af8ee8309e80811168710538619efe06621f478b6000b3f20