Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 072e27aa164fc6bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 06:02:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: d8d1f65fa2ce4268cfad654082115a1b SHA-1: 79efab73172f51d6dbc77738a8c824b9b5f357c6 SHA-256: 072e27aa164fc6bd647b8732614bd505daa7d8c20c6e7faadabb2fd0b872efce
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a lure to trick users into clicking these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://thietbiotovn.com/Images_upload/files/rofusagolunuzukaginavoxu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thetsaban3watnuea.com/UserFiles/file/90539899131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a2af680baf---segebavitugizomanazinama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laiyi-art.com/userfiles/file/75382897702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linker.tw/files/zixasatenoxetoputavetipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a554b87fea8---wewaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/582b216bce6763591ff7a58c91ca419f/66978658991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c290cedc2eb9a2eb111542c1702df3b6/16530897107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/837665f7036eb1bff751673b6bbbfd7c/piwedemorotajizexuseridej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/48509292253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medarbindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tarosemofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espiber.cl/images/uploadedimages/file/rugoxuwewezurani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motopujcovnateplice.cz/userfiles/file/46067534642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegas-shop.net/uploads/files/lugewegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///65193951259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/pofodelenabiwuxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/606584e11cbda4fe7449ee21724f81c1/wuzola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1b82db8f34---fupuzelonubas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1b3f3062f299fdbafe0c0d05e65ed98/69421070331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dayuntang.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210704012741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argyleliquidations.com/userfiles/files/vikagesamepuvimarasetonop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherishedmomentphotos.com/clients/8/84/84fe84b553acfcd191e166b7401b6f02/File/7721356699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0181587ac7c349816dea0f7270c816e/pobem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abhimaninteriors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48611230809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polandpools.com/contents//files/5427063347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=disney+epcot+map+2019+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_off00010a59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A59 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012270.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12270 11212 bytes
SHA-256: cc8e1b92c94462b56dd4deadba155702499eb263814c136ca8495c585bda073d
font_02_sfnt_off00013cca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CCA 19456 bytes
SHA-256: 9baf257b2034d3735fec718055378873d2448845fe7d05aa72a8d2209411d097