Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 072cede7168a4d7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:54:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3a51aa2411a5ebd0ae421491852e9707 SHA-1: 931c1f9c47e5e77886c6c27c4e8543d77f8a1343 SHA-256: 072cede7168a4d7fafcc7b231f944ca3d61f088d19ad15f579eb325bedbcf81a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links and a link farm pattern points towards an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f257b3efd9---48010957937.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815a7eca00f---13944440902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb1e13ca37f---papavuvojokixodagepep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c66420147afe8cd0ffc07c551f68ffb/soxexenageruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline2.org/contents/files/35252511360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d80279adf83bba6132116222cd27ebc/tebeviwofodefodidifaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lqa45vv8lonp1f34v89moukd66/37370477651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tlo753k99baat52bott6q79mh4/nigavezelafezezoxevud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bedfbed1b9---befulafatisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b37bc99de2---tazupavefufot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionriverside.cz/files/file/26700515698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fqcycpa.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210730084609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuhs1970.com/clients/a/ac/acc339db084e87cdfae31a76a6c96f1c/File/bufijit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmacieitaliane.com/documenti/file/woxejisabimapotixijosemir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itexpertdog.nwoasis.com/upload/files/11501211984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenenergy.com/sites/default/files/file/varamojinoxanidogak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b16toeqf8bor8imoj3babgcdr3/70191946144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kommunikator.nu/demo/userfiles/file///jagezapeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b4f5bc856b---19162834372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210505142400_647669123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36323778843e3cdf24b648198bd33f84/79682863558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.abcklima.hu//data/editorfile/boviminovekepifogewojaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giga-tronics.com/userfiles/files/wuzopatudijoxivewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gursakaryahukuk.com/images/file/tefajipow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=surface+tension+wettability+pdfPDF 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_off0001095b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1095B 18468 bytes
SHA-256: 7c1f29b5135d4687cfedef262c64df75103c3f475f2b50730607cef06b14ccaf
font_01_sfnt_off00013983.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13983 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001519a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1519A 11128 bytes
SHA-256: e0eeccfb08e1581494b68daae605f02a6f6f095aeb5ddad8d081f5d01a763d85