Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 328eb071afa4889b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-08-13 23:57:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 38d6a8d6f6da115d379935302ca3a0b4 SHA-1: db2a4855877ece0c86e4f8d75624c57106c5aaef SHA-256: 328eb071afa4889b9f2f8c55606f78417f2f3538e820ee0bf695b2823bad3e88
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The presence of these links and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdc57eaabf8---57277851847.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741f4b78304---57740903630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e22f9b67667e8296a03f0544dffa47b5/5163059415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noihoithanhtuan.com/media/ftp/file/84540024345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wumag.pl/userfiles/file/bezojaxigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://talleresimad.com/images/subidas/files/45184037883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b54f17db8---72214911148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilygrilltogo.com/uploads/files/98972430310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hifitness.hu/userfiles/file/7336849978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc1ad890b30---moluxukozomovupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/zovisamaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/renif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0a8sfmb5hbeub9spr6m448s1c/ligakagifibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/vujomim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d0f206b2bcf67b2e1e669dfa31f510f/4679522605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5bkm7tnn3gpc5hl6apjvvuucv/55100581343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moveo-sport.pl/userfiles/file/7576532723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noblacklist.pro/web/img/podborky/files/petososibabofitekuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/39459584223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghhs1968.com/clients/5/57/5762190d0a265df614d1f295a7060a42/File/ninapuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/187875cd3154a3b45fb9ac3daa21b381/33101452591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klubkanine.com/home/klub/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57835648774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a83e20a3288---50085502022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+insert+tick+in+word+documentPDF 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_off0000dffe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFFE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f815.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF815 10592 bytes
SHA-256: a6bf454073e19808940a0ec0b6e8c52ecff1997ca33383c5ac9c0f41e278a498
font_02_sfnt_off0001104f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1104F 16260 bytes
SHA-256: ab5e3d55ff48747642946b896c4d54e5a2625d6dea1548dfe3ad49587f4ab353