Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1b28d6a6eee4785…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-28 14:52:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 64a126bcd6fb56eb1090fc2b6825f996 SHA-1: 654c60128c28834216dd156da798190aa5b84acb SHA-256: f1b28d6a6eee478528ad5993e376f3e4434cf43c3f2cfd0e9c83e597d5d8eb41
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, with a high ML score and ClamAV detection confirming malicious intent. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

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.stnedu.com/ckfinder/upload/files/bisokefomegolewox.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://777mto.com/contents/files/xowoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615228a58ad3b---17481070759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmcoverseaspvtltd.com/uploads/files/43896522500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.com/files/files/43874785524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altronic.pl/!mag2011/userfiles/file/sukivin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/Files/files/mogixekunifusokenifijik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131512ebac2b---mawesofadurajapezojas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/xoxomexijeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cck-brno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rawujujonojigakexowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/kiguxubifebesuzorenewivop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sananselmo.com/wysiwygfiles/file/vajobaretopejomatoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/67199401593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp.net/contents/files/75340663783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belniig.by/public/file/33019699548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ed06a3a6fab8040cd19b2737b26d524/82535781885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientrungland.net/uploads/image/files/99387736127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmar-e.de/userfiles/file/kinadagefefuxuwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petala.gr/userfiles/file/zapezilitojozufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drumlockingclamp.com/FCK_Editor_Images/files/28082035817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136546a0510e---fowon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e5032346b9---31418119126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolitplus.ru/files/file/84166247746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galedo.cz/www/data/cms_files/files/jusabosuwawiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geojeoceanhotel.com/userfiles/file/20210910135448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambres-a-la-ferme-plouzelambre.fr/userfiles/file/kokadavirudejawusuvolot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theflowermaker.com/uploads/File/74656922342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=amino+acid+coded+by+3+codonsPDF 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_off0000b406.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB406 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 787d8bdcaa9d1b5abdab631f323d93dd547322e353ce4156217b1467d160ba26
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC8D 15360 bytes
SHA-256: 2112baf9481e7ad14128d0e14d818d48da88da2ff50e5c127ef46023526e33c0
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1