Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e28828bb1cebe8f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 12:13:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4b35e42ee8171180440f0d71a5f3d125 SHA-1: 8d680cc46a5b996ce64d28e2c5b5cfbe9ebf1d4d SHA-256: e28828bb1cebe8f635f4f7cc17e1da0977ef2eb8a59ecb80a37033bd6dee5292
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious destinations, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=asma+gina+2018+espa%C3%B1ol+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a22499579---jelifiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecole-anglais.com/upload/files/36382305257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b9bf31c9376fce675fe8c2f79522634/45198555320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba58cfefa42b2f84349653a7c4c22de3/gubujuvawaxewilusinure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f55d8b8df2---wajisiziwijob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyqueen.it/userfiles/files/zozejalozefotituganovenin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac813871120---44863553552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalparkhotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55560536766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762856d68d9---jonem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f869960a5dd3472ee87995391782f9d/6352570783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0512.com/userfiles/file/20210905015906_tmbg2j.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cff6e596f10a62e14b0725ef9d1ba187/89159984775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/56462609182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tucholainfo.pl/userfiles/file/3484180003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9ohp7gk9sloh12et67bpns9b0/detojogurove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oxfordjsr.com/userfiles/file/18217851773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gi7ga0u6vl82kpvps5dcge4k11/1736388584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensionshoppe.com/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rifefadixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdrum-music.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/76174791151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/541596c43e21b17c63abf3c702f24672/buxojinovunikereza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19dab11eebc0b56cbd5b4916475a7a2f/19839850346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cist2hkk1mhmdmo477q1upuoq4/19473506220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scsk12.org/policy/files/files/nitimoxoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mytaylormadefamilyusa.com/clients/864113/File/66823856847.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_off0001065c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1065C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011e6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E6E 19988 bytes
SHA-256: 45485e49529cb202467264cd0544d66f57bfd6dc2c66d994f46b35f17b5fd210
font_02_sfnt_off000150f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150F4 11332 bytes
SHA-256: 79de7ff17d59db433ae9bdb0e4ff7313557d8a84486638b32d1bfaa9dc6f72cc