Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b28ae30332bb3d2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 11:06:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3d929e6819f4e362f082affb537d3058 SHA-1: 7e010bb8de720cef1a5abf4b3a730ad93a376d49 SHA-256: b28ae30332bb3d2f11930f22318e4eb7e1010db469b30dae7cefb53a8457c8ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to other PDF files hosted on various websites, some of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. This behavior is indicative of a link farm, likely used for SEO poisoning or to distribute further malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://componentcnc.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nujulezuwolevenosejaxepuv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/975420bfc49c24fe6b4b4759de26f631/81422162014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-riba.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29769534156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loaamtran.com/files/usersfiles/files/37778427584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinda.ru/pics/images/file/16001507326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jbdclothiers.net/emailer/userfiles/file/85321114096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075349494b5c---sinifufivujerori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tikatalog.sk/_files/file/58457616572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/85512342987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609465b92ebfb---21404701023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxflowfans.com/userfiles/file/81713121268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lingchuanfloor.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/1019320187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/itc7hqldl1gste2lg7616t5ef0/boburo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f101f805781---92073315148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitchelllawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/58048970554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhongresort.com/img/files/50060812182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--3e0b556bhrbowi6undva.com/ckupload/files/22816560287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74530780386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bb9816158808d47fb58f76251afd4f1/vapitemevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emannsltd.com/userfiles/zozemituzedidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ee33ac14b---40669336372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b07257c2e---67627792469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5283ef70f---87402405998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sensi-leszno.pl/userfiles/file/wiwuwazekugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=multiple+meaning+words+3rd+grade+pdfPDF 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_off0000db83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB83 11192 bytes
SHA-256: 1aa0e97cb20f3b666058b6f0cf8918b0c3cb89fc9bac19045e05e47a05f5584e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f592.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF592 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010da4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DA4 17948 bytes
SHA-256: bebb5f4ac9c239b343743bc92ef5d43637ba2eb50f0abbffc0a5fa82b70a516f