Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e28aaae4d019df08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.8 KB Created: 2021-07-12 16:58:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 07f431573e41f641adfe5eb50c707b4a SHA-1: 08b58d58d42b4996ceb5566755fb68e41ad96d97 SHA-256: e28aaae4d019df08b88d5ec291eba1fdc0105a7ada2d5f8199258890f08e9c46
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4440e19e74---99114078423.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160816d0cdd359---mujopawagilonawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mizuho-co.net/file/ck/files/61466278169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esportenerd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/safobufubejum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/jipugemajet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhxndl.com/uploadfiles/files/66803542465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70e2cb333ebf3eda04b8c59aee5cd956/belugiguviku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thongthien.vn/upload/files/wegidijesifufoxufixolino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/papituwivaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basumati.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/damezikamigututerare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/2204129590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udmvdpo.ru/images/files/43371967151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/dominewozewevadokezamuwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lws-realestate.com/userfiles/files/19442902376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d2761c7df8e40b81ed89957fb580a70/94836657119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/344greud3hpuk9l0m6k4q7r471/67955776288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/momejuramibarep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2521cd6142ebb7430f554b1d7704814/41994813489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c31c0f43010---fonatabupusepelipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d76ede3657e0f4b60cc3b3630d825c79/xotusirejusuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cba81f27c2f---romelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/binolematepezujoziwone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af9cf568040e666e82ad02152d95f04b/xanaduwasebokox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0ac0804773fa2ad2ba89b57d029257a/tutik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=tyranny+of+dragons+guidePDF 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_off000146cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146CD 17880 bytes
SHA-256: 9118d4b8ce7d645c8fb5954968d25c1b66224d760ff4f2e433171e048674c0fd
font_01_sfnt_off000175bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x175BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00018dd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18DD2 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 8fa0bb5137a0a7cf09576b2fce9d2679fd105c17be56776f11282bd51395d3ba