Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28c00189a191516a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 18:15:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: dfcbae660cd6fef03bfeab180bba65a7 SHA-1: 4d46ddb22d5c755eeab74e871722fb1a2ac02a8c SHA-256: 28c00189a191516aa5c08889163b0916fcd7f425807e855256e48d745765ea11
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm pointing to compromised websites, and the ML classifier assigned a high probability of maliciousness. ClamAV also detected it as a phishing trojan. The document's structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9962

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://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d415de035d---pipafakerevulemibewud.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073147d06c6c---62144093435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o4eibh3qempe4ujpv1qqskdo8f/sipuxejojefesebibejojiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/95868977843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelsandmartin.cz/files/file/31623698333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appfacile.it/file/pixum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardlankin.com/clients/86087/File/dekowozupififitonare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkt-optics.com/hkt/images/userfiles/file/65323221097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savaksangida.com/resimler/files/17906695987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/100507262346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhhonganh.com/images/pic/file/bifexazufexerivexuvef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a5078ad75e771b42a62c694aeff58a0/76345061585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53qfo8gphbd4qvapanl2e72kh4/dudos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/jixufovorififiruretixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c17d243407c---pemij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dhi4muauq89td1ljed1h6f2j57/94065317278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d8e16c440d---94048340698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae711f73d2e---4309465388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=music+by+anderson+paakPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d3c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3C0 46592 bytes
SHA-256: 9a105a625fb4169f209cbdad2c3b4570c2eb92b27961dffacee2fd24c76ff0ff
font_01_sfnt_off0001538b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1538B 16804 bytes
SHA-256: 0a7b99b778cb4c75d4fcdbbb3a1cf365d52366c30a9c3e6d068b8250df52537b
font_02_sfnt_off00017fa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17FA1 10800 bytes
SHA-256: ee98dc41151872d7763254f11950369687b9df3825bac639bdeb5a6a8f1e07d6
font_03_sfnt_off0001987a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1987A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1