Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a28514f74cedb60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 18:43:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ee89b9e91b1e22222182dd8e93b6361d SHA-1: f2d172ad15ad05f4b788d049c19a7170e266c3a6 SHA-256: 3a28514f74cedb604aadf0706f2263c5348f0f333c185670c1830cda0ee70ac2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs and link farm structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

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 https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+remove+a+password+in+word PDF link annotation
    • https://narimasu-chintai.net/jcfiles/file/33612649935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/tugosuwefutididotax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b4d14ef780---13939969259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3b09438e670b616e639a956d9631d7a/meradawupejozazad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df5cea4109---96405181512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lphs-the60s.com/clients/5/5a/5a84a5cabe7f31a06b4bf99f7e1b7ad6/File/21869935432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072bc5985f53---26914895896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-senior.ch/uploades/userfiles/file/76680248509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1983a988a51f53c76e086467753e889f/davomunipadofiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2f62d57469cb920d9cd4f8c2d072f8e/simadiwetadomituridamodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halaljones.com/uploads/files/9105775589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bosgo.mn/uploads/files/leluvebowuxazuzasajituba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2ff3e63df8d0baf842492b917a9d8a3/kokotapunobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/464edb00ln8if5nm0v115caprb/xorigone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0ae74351e8---40349569208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edc581fcce8747afa18730ebe6409c9d/jitawonagevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/file/48188550325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0e2dbd6c4---lidedarivewiduvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cimkezes.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fujebunevisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewastexperts.com/userfiles/files/26504860097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaziemirkentkonseyi.com/upload/files/4865497391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9042df956---piwubenagufero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/16875202653.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_off0000e36c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE36C 16516 bytes
SHA-256: 0b6137ea18563dfe5831cb080e7d8014f03b9630901c1f959b80b36c7ce81940
font_01_sfnt_off00010e27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E27 10652 bytes
SHA-256: a6d71893a439d42ee690fca09f6e7a596edcca68a25a4ecdd3e01153feabbbdf
font_02_sfnt_off0001268f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1268F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1