Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 628a0c2a62b1c59e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:45:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 8b25fb183686e8c0fa3426302fe8fd92 SHA-1: 4d19e670ff365af8a814f31a40f02ce13711dda0 SHA-256: 628a0c2a62b1c59ecbf5652b79452f49f84461a507ca5d3916f7895e5e59923e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that likely lead to phishing pages or malware downloads. The presence of compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://xn--90ah6akb9e.xn--p1ai/f/file/tojawasotele.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://healthywithhart.com/res/file/nabozuxafagonedunamopoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/972b81438a5a73cacdf61d9d0f1e1f16/53050508087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/88830945525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randalljroutson.com/clients/44711/File/58080894322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/53597856041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/25549110627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsemilia.it/userfiles/files/karojimuzaxedik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/437673f78e124f40ecebd24364434173/11938198222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techinnsrl.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/74894003081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkt-optics.com/hkt/images/userfiles/file/madofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4fd9bc09f4---zowofekabalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ht2h8h6s7osrp2k8lsuf2f16v5/65020061486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/949e2ed551ab694143b04c3c082d10b2/72613252120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a499c48b672---32116950868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unicaconsultoriarh.com/images/files/didexukirelag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruaszarate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/votowokotevamukupowem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marty-triple-m.ch/inhalt/files/45957912892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariaalbese.eu/userfiles/files/porim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/72162261053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/te7r6vhq4580jp4fii5cp560k7/1450875008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f80e860d0d19731dc64c63a4ebfeb9e/zojimoxijafodolodoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/vuwuzojujuvarajage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4446f1be49---wojanalodijimav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=convert+word+file+to+pdf+online+freePDF link annotation
    • http://www.fotolia.comIn 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_off0000dbe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBE2 16832 bytes
SHA-256: 0c87fd49589643043a6f9a92834101bc7b2167271b8745a33df11e1a66c802e6
font_01_sfnt_off0001076c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1076C 10344 bytes
SHA-256: 076ec3616f63fa82de43613b5ee03d764c128ca0a24c5fdc6be913552612a6f2
font_02_sfnt_off00011eee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1