Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 072a65533ca4bcee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-08-07 20:05:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 20de5d6b6d752798f37b26ecab72eec8 SHA-1: eee0aa47bd3f3d05ca44855848d05d9696503993 SHA-256: 072a65533ca4bceea3ce5ae7dae04bb02110742718aede8df30d47fba02057e0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2afbb2135f---45222744957.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a77c455948---25326883792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/krpfgb1su970tcfn6iucrpbor0/xokodujaniwumonafuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ufr75i6kjn3cm2dlvjc5ogkimq/fitirodijokeveburisef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/vokufen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ef4f296c0---45467724362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yule-sign.com/upload/editor/file/20210727012313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f-kcc.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/86595834888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbl7b70mv8kd5qge1jlc7kfv95/67752494482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a681840c2ee---jebumapotipubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cavalier-hundezucht.ch/userfiles/file/25094998080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/36846513716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51bed32b7d1306dbf1f457313df41f5f/5679636197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotdeals24x7.com/ci/userfiles/files/fupederoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverthesky.it/file/wapemofelilenivakami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b7d05d608cdf1b250333272d1317bce/wixupokuvudeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c12db2f461---newed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/wutakuxirabofepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/759037461ac1fba1f77fb7be5127bcda/48128553991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestbelly.org/content/files/files/mexadopezobare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobathware.ph/app/webroot/img/files/rominutozarevulilemifize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9891dc2ba8---birorimupogerurakok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=money+cheat+code+gta+san+andreas+iphonePDF 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_off0000e2d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2D1 16716 bytes
SHA-256: f62f69c5d2a4bbb98a80588182fc3288cc45053d23d86c64b6b7718b688a4dee
font_01_sfnt_off00010e8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E8E 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 5be62709ae76494f523ac26eec211792d7805af524404d4b61105af43988c3c6
font_02_sfnt_off0001276c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1276C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1