Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b28deb8a09bfec49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-14 10:29:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0015aff1d5d1131dc10250c424e9d215 SHA-1: 175a3964d8e674b9e369a205c9e780810d0e0c9f SHA-256: b28deb8a09bfec49f974d73e0bb8382cdf2790d051d61990f09a7987672a9b9e
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple disposable hosting sites, a common tactic for distributing malware. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a method to bypass gateway scanning. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://aptekainternetowa.net/_mdm_apteki/file/wapetakofe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f81cbd4c04---54049349385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadapremiumlubes.com/survey/userfiles/files/fodewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spprp.pl/userfiles/file/malimine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fd.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54460956495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageddfjtj.pretty-match.com/upload/files/vuxurojaniba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2ctrading.org/cms_upload/files/didusinisajepepilalulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/lapasupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runhouchem.com/upload/files/30386732704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e314f53074---senogobivupoxitologu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maskaevlawyer.ru/userfiles/file/86563664068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puntolinea.org/userfiles/files/82913745599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doxity.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13639058583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intersonik.eu/upload/files/vogejojinurolerawedidepow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a975omi1h84efu28pdssra5rm/mutazewumelarazifajuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rm2pl6pfrt84rplun8pild42mc/gujagawofapakogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bozoklar.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fodabedog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138d7bdaa5cf---wigitikijatimelopif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jubileejec.com/userfiles/files/46744276505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwsm-hk.com/files/file/20077088635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134d31c6ec99---bumivigapalabuwefan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivo-mebel.ru/upload/file/61353533873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideviceplus.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/74856399921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lrsinc.co/userfiles/file/soviduwepadafupekoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+clear+voicemail+box+on+androidPDF 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_off0000d350.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD350 18192 bytes
SHA-256: 8db9ec3448dc4989a3e415574c6cee352112769b76677c7cecca6dbb35dc7cbc
font_01_sfnt_off00010286.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10286 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A9D 10748 bytes
SHA-256: d111d50e270b5bc1c40fa71f51a58bb82e7a0f244756a30800980ef7bca7f4ff