Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28e5c30fb2d45815…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 03:11:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: f1390cd75ab1a2ee454bf6c9c21b4bdb SHA-1: 68613dc26d87fb9e5102b9934050fe24eda222d8 SHA-256: 28e5c30fb2d458159512415c6244e018bdb74ceedffe7f85d0f6cb8f94366519
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for phishing or malware. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm detection rules further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=joint+special+power+of+attorney PDF link annotation
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fcbe855a77f077d3ea1de067406fbac/sipajodowugefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef7b8994f4---49432669517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3123d8773---3672324482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b87cd12ea8---lewusejabizivef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66c81b3b43ac401f95af9750a35bcc62/femaref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8g9j4e92g5ndd6o820euqgfq23/bibudapebetalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/dizodixokejefiduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b754b94d0f27a03fc4c3ed60f5a0a02c/kezamisododegeforekiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097bb238ca77---lujeguji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/gokuletofurabibar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7da3816072f7ffc512b82e9bf2588214/nexesazibotimutamebabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e7f71751f---6505615787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b9a814c2e---89170074478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97cd32c61b---48460342177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097ac9bb4523---nuruvuziribibajobunirikov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608896f002d02---30706669864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master-service.ro/images/file/jalamifuxepalezotobiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e27c5b7323---monazimuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/tezazoguboxeromevekired.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/kixedive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/bipufanasovedixameviti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/342c7eda8ae0d314ec62ba51a26631e9/bavaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160737a4943bf7---bugur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c5740a640---80814064587.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_off0000f353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF353 10664 bytes
SHA-256: b324808c645eaf4f37e0645695b0b41e2066e2c4d8bc90f234b45f50ad43d706
font_01_sfnt_off00010bfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BFE 16772 bytes
SHA-256: a5b76f98852758b722fd0d74274d267d490ac93e684579af71d5642fd4b4ab81
font_02_sfnt_off000137ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1