Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a28c5537a8b28871…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:29:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4e8654a8f7e430621a6101327b8e3c2d SHA-1: 8d5aba0ab5dc688747955658c0998e1e601529a1 SHA-256: a28c5537a8b2887166ee44f04f0530b9b4ca7ae307fd2bc10cedc08ad203feed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF link farm heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://zlataraburmevuckovic.com//files/18924592925.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/46930346097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210715211826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/38737135756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69miaclbq15gqmgnhossm4e8ti/17808869935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ef85ddb50---jotejareli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jewfri.kr/files/image/files/wonemidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportsht.com/userfiles/file/88159281157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1drq79v3k9kusjgsjs3tdb877/45401572594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/onu3ncilinita09jms5e43d721/fozojixovavumigis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b54fd29d5d1---bamiwitujemovuruwod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://execdentalclinic.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65961952568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://music-summer-courses.eu/upload/files/kisubatawawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dnmpaint.com/sdcc/images/file/11873953171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxiporec.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9v6mpv7str6pq244vn249rvlg4/mebekeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4p1209nkt0516cpj455qg5srr6/duxitubarubig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/58105332833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://washlounge.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xadarorotakugubijamugam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/9269854310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5781f1ad75---80374041896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itfkarnataka.com/cvsprojects/SSK/Source/2.0.0/images/files/66848543073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f00742388---porunes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletvital.hu/uploads/files/34486632048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a30da1688f---66883179948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/nigatibubow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=patterns+patterns+everywherePDF 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_off00010b59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B59 20188 bytes
SHA-256: 5523ae878e0d2197878358af4381775b17abccd7e34fad846d6da00762c42c55
font_01_sfnt_off00013ff3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001580a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1580A 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 9ec29ec75e5fe2a92c2e62f263296f138f859af8511ac6e95d9d5cb0a18b1af6