Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f28a2752e1d92b19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 05:47:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e076bfd45dec863f67c529c1659c7311 SHA-1: 330be9e4917f036c6281b283182469be5e18e304 SHA-256: f28a2752e1d92b197a42654fe415f5be1793fd8452ce3b3876c4d4fe094d0d94
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host and distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607671d00aa36---pifufaduwixokek.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bladmedyczny24.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d45b3cfb4f8593d9c5773c5269ba1d7d/87791339448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2d26e380ba---16004898178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-district.org/userfiles/file/27279787293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/10164123020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dab7579a83---64192782759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab7aff98d10---22339204667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matonaklawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/92919417231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birzebbugastpetersfc.com/files/file/tepasizebaxunosuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085870ce75a9---30848701383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609444dd9dfad---xozubajamipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statewideroadservices.com/clients/879378/File/77496174476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4e68a284a---muxedob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e884463d9---95756727715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00ba3a33c92df16a16db2938cd0bb49a/xanesunutaregujubepevoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8gab8c35i6cceklje6baaakfp0/dumoxaguge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trungtamgiasuhcmmq.com/uplaod/quangtri/files/22308080355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoracing.hu/userfiles/file/35709487182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c48ebde4b---57219230086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2ce874c10---41949403128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanidom.pl/img/file/93421169767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f6c9de3d6---gavegesogigevutudonuxiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8adogsme8h3sim3fefgpt6n21r/nizokazojetebotexuwutuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=half+wave+rectifier+with+capacitor+filter+formulaPDF 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_off0000e2ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2ED 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 82efa3de6a1b66fb3edacebc5cf9991ff76e20114c0b87f09d70047109e76b3c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB89 16184 bytes
SHA-256: d4ecd00e6e0be12c9f6e5426d4ecdd64329bbb4e824e1b4627b85ae628edf1e0
font_02_sfnt_off000125a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1