Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28f4c95ca9f41d44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.1 KB Created: 2021-07-23 07:38:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e5145f34f68656c1af1e56c6612b8b8a SHA-1: 303ae16163c5d827fdd5b46d171653ce5272d059 SHA-256: 28f4c95ca9f41d44eefaac13ba4f72b714ff931edd242156fee4cae4cef34a23
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content. While no scripts were extracted, the overall structure and URL patterns indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

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 http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/5699385363.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://almawred-sy.com/files/adminfiles/files/tevabudab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/2021625655378840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyallcanada.ca/editor_files/file/wegakomezenum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnc-soustruzeni.cz/files/file/zagomovazuwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transmar.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40577364271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doosradashak.in/ci/userfiles/files/50010278005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adsbudget.net/userfiles/file/rejipagorivikesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/61693590460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0612524f99c181923f6a7de099a4c197/fekewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krzysztofmalec.pl/gfx/fck/file/riduwifadenuvavafofariw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letdentalab.com/img/files/70404172710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/kuwifobofajoxoxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87d021d9d2---90353157246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///2021061610508_170319262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sadiqandsons.com/userfiles/files/jigosuluditomegoxarek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be859a93ddd---zisekuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b736ca00a5cb301a9534639862b2a087/37288976708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostingalani.com/calisma2/files/uploads/devojodotedupej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dobski.pl/userfiles/file/98942003438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alev.az/userfiles/file/jijolopejurumekezemegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i8venp29qt7q8busi6rm6st6b3/961549775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimthienbao.com/userfiles/file/jasapuluti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c14a54a99b1---wetufodosan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burlingame.com/wysiwygfiles/file/libapamefalinil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eurb4dg6h6nb3s0icr9gg1srtm/38459403966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=good+examples+of+tell+me+about+yourselfPDF 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_off00012af6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AF6 10960 bytes
SHA-256: c852b46f58f7631b28ec080a3f39af6722906c4e087d9dfccf075b7d2fc0147f
font_01_sfnt_off00014447.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14447 17352 bytes
SHA-256: b8fa503d2e441c22de91a1b4bda716566310be997c0df4a7fd0ed75b7501a792
font_02_sfnt_off00017161.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17161 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1