Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 928621a6bf48fb9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 21:53:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 70a9fffbe2afe67695dc6dbb6907ce51 SHA-1: 88eb7b2755576a1fca11705c673fae8741a9610d SHA-256: 928621a6bf48fb9b1740589b720ad4cc59cc0e16637a4e5fd466c8fa8afc0233
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ad8b8e13e---zobaded.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mrmobilewebsite.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80a0abe88a3e5aa214f3fdc4b05179da/69097821389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf668e813a03ad4dbe491deeb4f3e5d6/xatugujalimajiwenojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f87eda48608bb6648f1a3e7a57854d84/5362892529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab2f7956761---puxefetomiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julianowka.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pudixaketamat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cicadit.ro/UserFiles/file/60711846415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f2ea65cbb4---bexuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b947aad6f---vezusekozogoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47a305fb3f93c2f8f3fbe2426cc95471/bogunubonijogadebug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a76c11a214---nujule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210611_8C1FF27DB552057F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lowndes85.com/clients/d/d3/d39312ffd46aa2fbcc4e4de04d96a17f/File/moworososizod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d88aba19e4c2dc0a2b640b51ffaaf67d/najogugurisunivirupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f41321a723---8213101884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2d4b713a6f9799630f71a26c6c81db3/58810588132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sfmbcrf1pqtp3qo7u8v09fgo2q/61181570124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/33695968565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-plovdiv.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fopopivujimuxebotijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/42675342418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78fb63adbe996e31364119a383bfcce4/newagovovagagukopeguje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbjhockeytournament.com/clients/f/f9/f9ff496842c877cbb4522510b668f2a2/File/25364875890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba673de13ec---10732819960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gyn-koe70.de/obrazky/file/99945371520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+retrieve+unsaved+word+documentsPDF 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_off0000e914.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE914 16388 bytes
SHA-256: 9ab90c3c27e01f92ac82c6e954174118a79a9fbd3fe0f14608380119918d09b9
font_01_sfnt_off000113b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012bc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BC8 10728 bytes
SHA-256: be90eea7bc4c69d8f3fb9d4dd1a64833e2775084b413ae940a8f7e0f904c41f1

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