Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 628e436f3d85aa89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-08-12 18:48:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7d27af9978560d8641fdd065874c16ed SHA-1: f28a08541b951cf6f9261c75777278f519a5401a SHA-256: 628e436f3d85aa8983bde816621dd83d14ac22c50b42f3f04a1d4eb42d7f443b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites hosting further PDF documents. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content hosted on these sites, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba352612968---numazoxamur.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://oklogistic.lv/upload/file/69891688764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f17f98c7d---renuvometuxiwofezoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goksirkrupskimlyn.pl/img/upload/files/neworubevenamusuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4c8c526749820ba65398759ea991613/74755091185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrtaspol.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xiwajubujipuzupemudeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606c695e6e8c4---manapop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/dutubamituduxasimalofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hideab.se/tc/Mediagalleri/file/62061917535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lom5h867totuhc4u7nhdcto425/jesejixugekawevizunuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/zanonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-kontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21043615495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wintec-samu.hu/uploads/files/xivelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tulsamemorialclassof71.com/clients/84987/File/vekewitigosiwenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsgarten.com/editorData/file/vipobovife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac772ca2159---17254195442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/34544562760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g61dabcgmgep319tqgft21p9k2/77424612152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2da104030c---29204940953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppuhperspektywa.pl/files/edytor/file/14863377465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d15a146e3d---38708120106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a995c31e257---30225611431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3f8bd349af1566154655ae42341e1b2/41143952427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+the+codes+for+sony+tvPDF 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_off00010105.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10105 17072 bytes
SHA-256: 3ae8a2bea6d9e7f186ed17e68a539c4a7c2ac9c77eb7ebb94c359b1d02b20abc
font_01_sfnt_off00012d5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D5B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014572.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14572 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5ceb35e73dfa64f0c67d55bd34d5d2db7aadb393ad4ff28f65d1a7a02ff09e