Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e28e208282957763…

MALICIOUS

PDF

124.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 08:09:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 5e2e089014fa380a507e81cd3cb922cb SHA-1: 7c83c320d4b30429bbf7e517b76039cd684b7e7e SHA-256: e28e20828295776380c4d92c671274236cdd9f0fa776029a68d9526fa3e2191f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9903

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hell+fire+in+bible PDF link annotation
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/punakumaxobitam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/13509359158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/kijaxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5873db41aad348a985e4574003b32635/sotiduvurelepirovesux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d09c50040cd9fd5b21c18d7c3a3a77ba/nogixafepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b4960d50ea---donatiwewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vc04tqve3f15av8th3f94lbuht/27918791405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a0a3792492---tulozuriwugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenlakepaint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/laxure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/12816440876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okud-istra.hr/userfiles/file/babopes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089cae971d83---30865473579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37e298e6fd5c0445e27737bd9935fbb4/suzozegid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa93334b4465a19c8bdc65cab6c46317/wipesawijuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3ed3be236---86897273071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bumsnab.ru/uploads/files/keluvidifawozagebij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa70213610---zemexomeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4b3014a5efc3099c7e45574d31b2353/18852571961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9cd42d571---14689733899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songuryazilim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/72821907590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ebece7a851be3358b7dae45fd1c39d7/somitajojapepeden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f279c624c2---xoxisiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3202def3d400e26d1c22f7c4abadc208/14474655702.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00016e8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001869c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1869C 18948 bytes
SHA-256: ae2ae16f3e1fb255689f8e7e964ad5a245dbb35780bd9f0d8cbf35c8d9e6d332
font_02_sfnt_off0001b7aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B7AA 9792 bytes
SHA-256: d8bd5f982744266197b9484be8581fe14f4e735911adae7d2e641ead08166720
font_03_sfnt_off0001cd12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CD12 16232 bytes
SHA-256: af293b2b60dc5e826b00d8953dd18f37a59bdd939ad7d7593537948814e7f124