Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28e0078cfe6ba9dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-07-06 22:06:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 7994f98bd4e7a414547915e8daa9d0c8 SHA-1: 38e5f252f5feb805f5c1d331a794e2062d7fefc3 SHA-256: 28e0078cfe6ba9ddac42c6daa1564b5bf8f31d251f14de7205560ccde8c17b44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The embedded URLs likely lead to further stages of the attack, such as credential harvesting or payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=monthly+amortization+schedule PDF link annotation
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086aa8d35e04---23197071932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nfj731hvi57fr547odl1hhc7ku/norenoribovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feltshoe.com/userfiles/file/rapogifosumez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1b93bc21fe---rijoxeribudakizalaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/93224854835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bharatdarshan.net/rgroup/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89409786155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humboldthighclassof79.com/clients/1/19/19f040aad945c40a0acbd79abd3dc6cb/File/kufumulomonosegas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/45491973787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermatologomiguelgallego.com/miguel/fck/file/41839497819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7527e56c8d---suzalefokisavafaxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d12cb2fe9248ab7c79e31b3bd2f768d0/xenugabulirozigesan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/guvosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ea63498f3e---98252319227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/92414462907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokerprod.net/userfiles/file/jutusidukoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62c8072f8b9fb8cd5af6b72aae8e9689/99174660627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/dopilagifipilizifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/45234769507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cb1c95b055535e13cb0571230fd3231/25475228486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5346180dca50c075fe6d2ca0e7504dfb/bakirujuzalodemolifen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/fumuwobolaberudiximutuzub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zap-interactive.com/uploads/files/mapuzamukenawiwafij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8812edfaf7---xemutoxinidazudegujenimub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3i0vmvh4bbj1l9d1s89fe3a65/51984297481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/zesuxukefiritavu.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_off0000e10f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE10F 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 261b1eaee4ae8ce92605a3710f6ab48ed40f7b3cb19ce117fe196e1ee8262460
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA26 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011238.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11238 16532 bytes
SHA-256: c925543c5ecd915ce5c7910534d1e5240d71c18ab82f83ab4b2f0979631bb6c3