Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a28d808e9bd3e805…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:06:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 59fa9c6390e1a0f0cb89ac632d14d8f1 SHA-1: 0ee64f6fd0a98aa7bcf0f8db06eabbfe25fd546f SHA-256: a28d808e9bd3e805ef1cd6cbf2c59b06991e5f3a6d1b9d9c55475fdf192f5598
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous unknown URLs hosted on potentially compromised sites indicates a high likelihood of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb40hrgs7a88i1g4o2bp9uohmg/lokevotenukurulijenuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jlm-kg.com/uploads/file/68805698826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/pugibajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2vxr09c6mc.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/63073465731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santaclara.com/wysiwygfiles/file/89573419879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bernardthevenet.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14630506899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ae553e3108a3c5b3a01b6c287724b53/85723180658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esteticka-stomatologie.cz/files/content/file/83339495781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91b5e6880e5ee39dedcd2005ef1a046e/wufifubukapowulen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/kazanupeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rsst77.ru/upload/files/93635663432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexedanang247.com/uploads/image/files/rurubufurugukoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ba4724f97---60351508065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/427b6a07d92ebe37351c7f697f477fb3/puviratujoxafonuxavag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//mitojogumegesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a627b0a4320---vemamageraruvemetegojul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ps4nrp05pqm63onkgi1anltv6/xadodomoxotilano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosurfest.com/userfiles/files/sumufugifakowikoderajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanizsakran.hu/userfiles/file/piwarabijisenifogezidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a1tqqrqaisorbtp74trosk1ks/lurodikoxexatidejapolufez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/dinokukevilegawajosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcvizovice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jilajexalekixorip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9404575d940208cf8f26adb79334542f/donali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=nuance+pdf+pro+office+downloadPDF link annotation
    • http://forum-auto.ru/data/files/romiforodolo.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_off0000ee0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE0D 18596 bytes
SHA-256: 4c5fae08b075b55a008e565cee0d962ed71443e22bf3034293ac3fc7daf5b1c0
font_01_sfnt_off00011e3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013656.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13656 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 7f93e2bef6045e1a5c30c2b43ef80350901515947a229d94443df13755d6aaf5