Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73a28cbfd88b363a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:26:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a3f278877b89abfcceeba269cec92b1f SHA-1: 39fcce08f239827a87e99eba1bb80a5288785045 SHA-256: 73a28cbfd88b363a80ebba00f125eaecf8b988d6e3d7d353b3094b7b08f43530
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to external PDFs hosted on compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these linked documents.

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://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98b4077f00aef2e74f58fc979984c74e/razozab.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/sakaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbhsreunion.com/clients/21010/File/84662979646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ville-dammarie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60174650683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-immobilien.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96134420388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/71630586994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevale.us/userimages/piresunuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.celso.org/download/wofoxosobetalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a43sgngg6nle6cs4sk9eu4u8lo/92042646344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/88729396973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2-140-swe8h.xn--p1ai/files/35494936726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/boniwazopakisebuxitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virker-ikke.dk/files/40615440906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomartani.eu/userfiles/files/tofalobatimuxizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b940ad9cd6d2a4d45bf05102f3e9e430/93813530006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.com/upload/files/wajob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29d229cb06---tuxisavifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/27915267370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f17f4da7956efa82d55e91ce68d27cd4/banimetagol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5a719e4355---mefoxewexit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a79ff3e9d2c7cb471a4ac24ca6e04219/makenojonuwurejejof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massintech.ru/img/outer/files/mojurabumemuxiravom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d613bfd0d---nuvakoxosonix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609330161ce47---xotifelusewitumotofigumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9j8pt6u2cfg3kcb5r7oap6en0u/mimawijodaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=polarity+%26+electronegativity+worksheetPDF 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_off0000e8ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8EC 9804 bytes
SHA-256: 1e6be9151f505503aed78cc5278319a8e0ae109b9d1dbd43cad093e33d32389a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE80 18372 bytes
SHA-256: e72dbf188fce4b03f7befc42b4011f894d8d82e3c3496da8307336daf65420f5
font_02_sfnt_off00012e4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1