Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d428569480bad270…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:58:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 155cd6fa8a3252d2ffb9bc15babe7673 SHA-1: 9e760fc1aee6c9672747eaaef42138ee2e36f239 SHA-256: d428569480bad270384edc149962cce3d7e73f7bf8dce718d1ccba06a853c6fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of numerous URLs on potentially compromised infrastructure reinforces the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fjft0u2cato4r90bq56loe69m5/retakewakizit.pdf
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53ed0af11f8a122aa955993d51cb983a/nerilivuvivetiropuxed.pdf
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b962168856e---90418074876.pdf
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7fcb770af---96600126650.pdf
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t72kh5imet9pvl088a8mlkugmg/xejoxaduralunaxajivifuz.pdf
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/gelagakobopibatelijunex.pdf
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89ahia1957srblhm1uvt2osd56/96690474294.pdf
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe0b4e1de5---15966074514.pdf
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ira3duo91ps34sd4hq5n056vr/87938943037.pdf
    • http://loveperfectionschool.com/upload/file/45916697153.pdf
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/33510842745.pdf
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/um55l5grh0b8deq33eongktrd3/puzakasajavoloro.pdf
    • http://sluchatka-shop.cz/files/upload/files/57435912057.pdf
    • http://xn----7sbab1bcaqplb0ccyi9d.xn--p1ai/files/file/vajolelosanetutidapeburor.pdf
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/64697936481.pdf
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dc80e01316e768b0468dee1daf6cbe3/jegagase.pdf
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/14380717797.pdf
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160bb616186042---jotesuduzoretujubikuki.pdf
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff7114f459---66367854925.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=boiling+point+substance
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb8f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB8F 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000103a1.bin
ede269aea73ad343d0877aa855a364be847ed225bbb7fb4cfb68c4a2cd99600c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103A1 17120 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013061.bin
08d4bc17e0b52c81cd389977d69214104cda60d58ea2b8e069e9b21061e42704
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13061 10744 bytes