Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 073ef8ff30ab7d31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:13:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 003043f145cda55a649be79df7f40378 SHA-1: 39a6dff24240a97ad751e2661f235f02ff5f5384 SHA-256: 073ef8ff30ab7d316f91986cfc82aaa0f71a2a27049a0df31a0e9e77ad4f1d79
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users into clicking malicious links. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to direct users to phishing sites or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/mofigixarejatug.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1f4a50486---74279276944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://execdentalclinic.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dowisatewolegixep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748048901bb---jadojoreruwoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtarrytowndeli.com/uploads/files/36277968711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4e3da343045bb63627b8e8f48d029d4/51237609328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086961e178cd---zezapuladusolakavugalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c589ab9ead---91182356664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3a797b9e0---79902015372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/werulilafezusumidalezid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610314d117e95---11483447915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://threadworx.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/57182106085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f8a915c5293fc65fee485a12e8b689e/86269971980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevenhillsgroup.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5330400618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a5d39aa700---53560185202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084483fa9225---jojisivumalanexodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e78d3bfb20---96597657899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiskreunion.com/clients/b/b4/b417c2091670ce0b0d78f4b231aea02c/File/rajatuxavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/58664491570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb5d783633---73611121320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607521cba1682---21490558893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de-ko-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lagudumivotesajaxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lekudapukoxitagezusuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posaonakosovu.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50838245053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+legendary+items+in+pubg+cratesPDF 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_off0000e098.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE098 18708 bytes
SHA-256: 22002437f3356efad3706451a3dfc7a21b4a13a5aa39a852fce12172891fc4fc
font_01_sfnt_off0001115c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1115C 11288 bytes
SHA-256: 43c740c8ed402120131c6a9df8a25cdd0329f8caea0d5b65a1ef5853b0a0099f
font_02_sfnt_off00012b7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1