Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a283282d41a43dcd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:03:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 30cfa870013438c666e0f09893132d66 SHA-1: 2a0d13195a7a33edc3e589419f87c5e2318fab9f SHA-256: a283282d41a43dcd53da29c3d8c2ec93ff0221140a368ae51c90cda133468828
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's designed to lure users to malicious content. The presence of link farm heuristics further supports this, indicating a deliberate effort to obscure the final destination or distribute traffic across multiple compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/708269091124267840e43fead248a120/40558408602.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://koffiewarenhuis.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/73079366127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/jomuxejimudiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f59586fa6d---tepuvujelazijib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asokmontridental.com/userfiles/file/68184511875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a3f1ca347---dokoxerunabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pneusmarene.it/images/file/83423895810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/redadevobevatikapefatosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/fasojugunesux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vh4r4m1pa21djukd13koauhev1/72310350594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/78210263283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dec939c455---xukasofuxalugivepaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mzr-avocats.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21602193197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traonguoc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d48155slps3hk7jdubq9fhg3a0/26782619628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jbe12bk6f6vsujmvoeglis3v83/vosifosonupesomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a9e9014029---nagedokuvazogoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videofilm-tv.ru/content/File/mazaxigiduseverowojugaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i7r0q0s3gnjckepgdb43qhd8ff/talagubivuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accountingworld.in/singhania/downloads/file/32813995179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743a6f574f9---xodikasuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/15225811671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a039c5bd580116b66652ab8402ce6134/57330424071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/27736170070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10d66f0dee57007ee9e8e4912572969e/jefoniguferedevusogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=another+name+of+interpersonal+communicationPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1311e6367999db8fb88aae1df3a8949/91911094701.pdfIn 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_off0000f1b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B8 17052 bytes
SHA-256: 8d34cbb6956f297daa860f143c63b304f7f3740844c8597ecd3f0b4e17f00f30
font_01_sfnt_off00011df8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DF8 10828 bytes
SHA-256: d7fdc1c960009a722697b483fabbba8d1bb0f834dcc8cae330d91beca5917ec3
font_02_sfnt_off000136cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1