Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a28dbfe38e945aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 03:47:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 078d3f584e06ee5ac49106a35e7ec5e0 SHA-1: ac3cc9c08da7e43327fbfac4164fbd58d38fbf5d SHA-256: 5a28dbfe38e945aaa558fedcae31e4e79a93f25b97a43c324e4afcabae19654b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to distribute malware. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The embedded URLs likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9931

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://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/rikozobakerojigumijug.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08c14e28e3e22e5e13e299c7b232e235/63007850434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df6798e82e6624b74981f3ba1bd29155/89283152101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5d5a3ec31---lamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acb58f75041---tijopififeverebofoledo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95acf8c0ef---10659738114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607416293c788---56838179565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/894769bfee80c0cc878727f88fa31008/82962562185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df9c6d6ad4---nugalufivosegodupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo.de/res/wysiwyg/file/79598134382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa2d34ca9b9e362feaf8f03aafd98115/79177355957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f88685c55f---32612454391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareprogram.org/images/file/59812909223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcf9bbebcab6be0065b6f2b6874f68fe/katinijizozarulidurap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbc667fd02---xutifoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigxra.com/uploadfile/file/2021051612052873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f0187e253---92022600194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a1f47ec2bf4f61c15e6b33aee836785/mikapububutobaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a79ff3e9d2c7cb471a4ac24ca6e04219/makenojonuwurejejof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e93f3fe06c48d778963afc95069e248/jifomejud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33l2ei485kcqtb765a19r6g4jq/27289220041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/icod4bbnmujko8i5sejl53nh40/5569417071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/bemosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=kidney+infection+if+not+treatedPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cb7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e38d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE38D 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 5e4c00560aa92e58ed7893f1d29e19bab1551ecfc1a2d4366013d39ff1dff337
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8CB 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 73bc420d37d9fcf7627e3940ce88038a6eea0469d0d44346345a50bf1d00ba63
font_03_sfnt_off0001104c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1104C 16920 bytes
SHA-256: 3a9d7582d1bd0a7a79ca4cd350d08fda8a298e5676b5dd1e558509cbdefefc99