Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a28a652475f89cda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 21:59:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: cbb5cb54ab333b2fa3f37704c1a3b7c7 SHA-1: 26528e8553c3bda5307363da2327fd08d73901bb SHA-256: a28a652475f89cda5e4633566566c9aef34130cf7e6bc41e3673042e7ec1448a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely exploiting users to visit malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://yangpupark.com/uploadfile/files/vuzonujowukijadizubutubon.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/30265502637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb52ec856f5821bf3759df07ec623f55/vemurufosopur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0535.com/userfiles/file/20210614125943_u2p8as.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarlakesarea2040.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/weputiromubawugowixox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purefeeling8.com/data/file/83688510212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080bcf768796---zexudogasirobovena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rkvromq8ps95trjl6uifongasf/kotivuxemat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mysistermyfriendministries.org/clients/85776/File/96144630681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creaorganization.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/96447533628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b848b48a02f---lafer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tksvolga.ru/userfiles/file/96682239412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b45d445fe5614e6dbf4e8f720e629fc0/46042165872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/69020970817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c11b941687f---75509996810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d787aa6806---gitikilolegefitobiwesib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/ruvatifisonuweru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yesilkoyluleriz.biz/resimler/files/70091750522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lkmojls3qjarhrspbd1tterjl3/faromewodugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca0102753fc---71786886831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proxus.nl/file/29618005019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3bff416aa---jipaxodox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/16490508307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa7f3c705f---voxosepuzitatetijuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2602abde3a---89258409061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=you+are+sharpPDF 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_off0000fb03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB03 17312 bytes
SHA-256: 82d34754245d631ba6090948273923520520abcb103fe88aaa4afc737792a640
font_01_sfnt_off0001283c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1283C 10092 bytes
SHA-256: 922a569977b321f03e635873c5c69134db49dd93c92a170fbee23491d4aedc98
font_02_sfnt_off00013ee4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1