Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28e55803ebcbf08a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-07-14 06:47:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 834f6952d154a7a922c09ce08465e934 SHA-1: e0449817b988179ffc61b9f062552bd4f4e5f55c SHA-256: 28e55803ebcbf08ac761e6198598d5fe3f4c0d4c774818407c9a14ab86b286b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, as suggested by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/scal1pfh1rf00ao8d800ioqjqk/sadimilenupi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a8e5a4826414c91852f046cc9328e2d/likoxulekunakukimilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af88c0339c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebb31b9e29---deniveguwofuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/favixukowam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c06aec061d4---papidivotixipawunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://my-natural-style.net/upload/files/4610684653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevimticaret.net/userfiles/file/beselijutajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianklein.eu/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kojugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731d9703aeb---jinazenonitirodejad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095fb7e662d8---mokana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/84774254364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074347dd37f6---20607639009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinside.pl/userfiles/file/32149921164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackshirts1962.com/clients/f/f2/f245580d3072b78cda2271cf7a7e3f61/File/82054141955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/jodatufofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prvugkh.ru/uploads/files/dezizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosesrealtyhomes.com/userfiles/files/sogegowesilinofujageligeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/329f580fb5bf3cc2d13a29ee4f04f9a1/83057968741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee4e4b13e8---20756644658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/joxosizegemom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/67838899571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b72cd015c---disolamujivunopuzezudimol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=career+ambitions+meaningPDF 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_off000101da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000119f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119F1 10576 bytes
SHA-256: bccfb2f64841082d529b1cfcbd58ed6a9dbb7b10860869a02bbf107ae88dd584
font_02_sfnt_off0001321c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1321C 19532 bytes
SHA-256: ff7e45be3385eea25fd90101e9f345248c8dbc24aa48fc198335eb88bf24c716