Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 628a05a1b15020fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:56:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 376be90800b8334884013fcd8cae380f SHA-1: c12312b761cb5f959ecf7cdcca674000d06d7ae6 SHA-256: 628a05a1b15020fbba62587da72c50d4e78512ba44c9b9564ff17ee051604e4c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware delivery or phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6d4098b823fa192411dd766fc77dee8/vuxid.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://obchodsezlatem.cz/upload/files/kugozifawijibapabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/42267185388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01f218c22d9dd3806bbe1b8b9da9ffeb/6387474851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilybarnes.com/DEVELOPMENT/VERSIONED/emilybarnes/trunk/sites/default/files/file/gutexudemasajip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/67473330970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jevades.com/aircraft/fckimages/file/jokedevuropaluwila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graylegalservices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pelawatugavoxuxeruwajij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161024dbcf422a---goduliwuxolefomojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9bdc7da37a---13186331850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10kshot.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tufav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad128ab070f---lorakojogiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banphimchuot.com/userfiles/file/37734862759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunghiephuylog.com/upload/files/gofojar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/Files/files/76663494676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arlingtonhigh1961.com/clients/e/ef/ef36f0800c0a5d5a0b00d5ecc8c3c6da/File/28515706060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariasangiacomo.it/userfiles/files/71888107678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c54fb152dc08ab9d9bcfcb0adc6b10a/zinesaxifinegajigijere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meechoktoolmart.com/user_img/files/60188763033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080033cc7ca4---laxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c65d1011e6---dutabapijozenor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/82103614738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00861b925c9befd1cb321b5a60638ced/tonumexoximizotewadobem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b23026b63---40762561191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/60497056306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=dylan+thomas+poemas+pdfPDF 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_off0000b5af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5AF 16348 bytes
SHA-256: cd80ed130d395c6de5d0c33b63cee48f1512654f359c832c393d14f4c6478e31
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfe8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFE8 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 70fedcb3fff53139c2b95989c4cde1679b5e78a976bdd5d03550881b941bdd60
font_02_sfnt_off0000f840.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF840 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1