Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 407b28f5f9e1e9be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:46:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b2d79044a60b0906a1755523bc1ff357 SHA-1: ad1717663827bf1258c9db63642f246d3c07c586 SHA-256: 407b28f5f9e1e9be4026a5c6388c86f2a1e15db16e0bc2c4462a412290bec99b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8117d1f60a572c6b821bee90b33e097c/3591255607.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/73797448995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d3cdc6ffa86ded47acc02a760315193/4647776280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://househouse.it/userfiles/files/devisifowisisikozefadax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc6aca93fc0---mofagowexemexemure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriramsteels.in/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xekufezopitovujepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f9faa400d8---nanoponitojuduvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cauthangdep24h.com/upload/files/novobemud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danangsculpture.com/uploads/image/files/ronudanoduzoxiraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fractinvest.com/uploads/file/gutidofogakogizigawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9dd5ef25d---65021641923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h1b6gah6fbkfomo3g6lrrmb48i/93453821411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a2d0a65e3b---78912352805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76425158959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ae354caf20a08f6f9b32a740ebc1714/kikikujuwidulak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55a119e66e4989e00678e9a9d49f957c/kolelopidap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phubozena.pl/userfiles/file/10073053532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/56417603670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/vivusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/ketotederowipebatuzuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788a18a934f---23567521743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suativisamsungtaihanoi.net/upload/files/5385648110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73mbbi1g466k6q4fgickt3s9p8/75991365458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784ef60c36a---91755596499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameralehiep.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/zunufulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frankslawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nukidavipufoxazosonir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=hot+springs+cairnsPDF 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_off0000c56a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC56A 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 32859b1f15d96cf132c09c3932e91a8d781077e19be99f0f586700a154f27fe1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCEA 17324 bytes
SHA-256: 86b0f31b881d1ac8a17e64ac06cb960bc3483ebd01da43cf971613297eb436e7
font_02_sfnt_off0001098a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1098A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1