Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e28e4414f7eb6b7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 14:35:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 471bdb14bb3365f80cffa7aa99c4e5a3 SHA-1: 9f2c08145ba9fe4f76986a8e80817eef61642a67 SHA-256: e28e4414f7eb6b7dfad12771b34663d8926e3cd7f657604930e718a72bc1a0fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm hosted on disposable domains, likely to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of numerous unknown URLs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3sohdo9uf14lr222tg24lnartd/tamowigojurovuzulow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/favovuzutetirunimewunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/20294413985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c76280a460---1790156870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a99ead5de29---losexuxoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caffepontoni.com/uploads/file/numusitesesoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc745bbda9---20448125972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42d426982c86bd7f423f55a40a2cac2c/tiveti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845eee51f84---44201141275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210627215415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/tozexadokadivupixowojogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/46424377372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607865f59c06b---38661984732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/bakitidaxipuvetepuxakovip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608978ac049c4---fasewumanekebotetuwigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d90b6d8fa---59131225228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfeahwarn6ac1adp3fb2p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/27995700455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b1cc5b8c2---wegumulobibajavot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nvagtikmvhvvs9mc5sidjimsbd/maxamuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099030c8bb71---kudimonapoxisovita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/10012062821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/melomatiminoterobigareze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec53c5c698a37a6f6fee6928d0779e2d/patonivukarabinegar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/41056100476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/egsec1n5mo48b3ap72gs16d7nf/83279566398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=free+book+downloads+for+studentsPDF 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_off00010b8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B8F 17488 bytes
SHA-256: 987923968ae95ad3a2f9ea40f3095309bf60cc2d853654f5892caa7ef8986aae
font_01_sfnt_off00013872.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13872 10648 bytes
SHA-256: ef20fef9bca10860122016b430b89f8010eab4e5e55bb0fdfc3542ac9a37ca6a
font_02_sfnt_off0001510b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1510B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1