Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da28abba076f49b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.7 KB Created: 2021-06-19 09:12:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 13dd10d7c5e82fd248c31c8505a2a745 SHA-1: a72746c5aba361f8f2459cc96db43a9d6a8a2e88 SHA-256: da28abba076f49b40c39efb0f700d4e50377022340b16d29cea084167d8a134c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malware. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to book downloads, aiming to trick users into clicking malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ch6d9bll8a9oucui4kgdgqam1/16595954722.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32c9f0fbd3---tovamutijewuwegopomozafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607386650b6b3---26034330790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/901f5bc671543e20206be1d3f606f4e9/17798209333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d00c4b8e73---mefifenivonerewiniwawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929f7b0e656---tusax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f2adc4ab6---nebiponowonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b1d6fbf10dafa95caa349a175e73e19/vukodopojovatamuwened.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btcauction.vn/hinhanh/file/linixukifutitimolepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/117195f4336d07def57b9f92fdd313c8/53509575008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca7f234099---47569170774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnazia.com/fck/imagesfile/vomozuromun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/49069669976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b09284b452---26924338642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a30203f0e28---tasabifojevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/gikebizofokala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c544df82be595471242dc8228d2b8fd/xevifaravuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=k+sagar+mpsc+books+in+marathi+free+downloadPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0fed60592357c1d6bc0bba6c4a1cd90/91278393580.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000101ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101EF 5836 bytes
SHA-256: 714e587208cb82b9de8996a22d25791f6c215d35b1ad392a21dbf274217d2fcf
font_01_sfnt_off000115b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115B5 11212 bytes
SHA-256: f49fa43624c55d8c861cc8ecd27c970df647b76409ca0026afef846347b2fea4
font_02_sfnt_off00013c40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C40 15216 bytes
SHA-256: e79c9a557e0584a03e541c447a2b81f3a9ba28d1143906174524f7d13486f4df