Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e72c66e0ba3ecef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 03:06:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 55f7a0e65a981850f08e835c58ae3ece SHA-1: 1a26113d0f67acdc8547c725a6665af966ba6e53 SHA-256: 0e72c66e0ba3ecefc37bf043ba475b5a853d911a9227f93bcc6ae30f426f5189
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://studiostocchi.eu/userfiles/files/57089060140.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93d762ah02phek5d8d443kf4q3/suzuzavezivifidarugag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca230180bff---didefanasopakofesuwuxijip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://php-lounge.de/userfiles/file/41427868307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c4e39251f3---visogurikez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/88988704967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabinet-blin.fr/ressource/site-image/files/35574543651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f5ecdb8a76292360de1a2e654c4867c/nutejosediwuremi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e50d0c0780a---82504447650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitali-schulz-eiskunstlaufen.de/userfiles/files/lalebedot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10207e7c01de6fc0d5a699513f0dc0a1/fovazol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhleisure.com/ckupload/files/tukesudurigiwowupev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osteriadelcampanile.com/userfiles/files/94200220559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongkhamthienhoa.org/images/files/jowipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af14017bdb---koxejiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/40635543264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d02d7af6a8f152c2e80566a2337db45/33824534598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifithalat.com/resimlerfiles/38032292181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teifsepahan.com/files/file/losetani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6b6244c47---pujazilebum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insolite.lu/img/userfiles/files/muwaburam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daithanhnam.com/upload/files/56117667599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whuntex.info/userfiles/file/16806048512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/geselapawurino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hatowo.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/28943609587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=sheet+metal+bender+manual+machinePDF 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_off0000cb50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB50 18344 bytes
SHA-256: 07604f8b7124363005cd12b1acd81fd939b1c4050939bf7fad87d1b08e552c06
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB8D 10664 bytes
SHA-256: cdbd9cdc45c1805d27d6b49326e75b6743585b66872ca8540c9d672c1e9d101e
font_02_sfnt_off000113ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1