Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7172c0d62fbf8fb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 00:55:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1236f3b00c18ddaf41d81c6d52f3407a SHA-1: 013b91713875b55788dababa122cd234b18e2061 SHA-256: 7172c0d62fbf8fb6fc6e6bda490c45b1617ec114332d8e908d62abd3370265cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a machine learning classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that likely lead to phishing sites or further malware downloads. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicate a deliberate attempt to distribute malicious content through a network of compromised or disposable domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=industrial+research+and+development PDF link annotation
    • http://ouhkpthaa.org/userfiles/78079220726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cavalier-hundezucht.ch/userfiles/file/57330721285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23867meqhfsbpmkpoqpn0obne7/kikijatinugeror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gurs8mpdrbds4nv3tqe26iaer1/22689402026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fhjjtke2ukf42t8s5ek6tr9bvr/rojobapim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizit-k.net/uploads/editor/files/mitejaburesiziso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lmdg02ok68qlg1vttlm5qo649j/46802843265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bandenplaats.nl/cmsimages/file/62923675330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/67446220867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/gorex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/197334802260a03975a6061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arisutour.com/ckupload/files/74206302152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9da88dfbbd---mekowejule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u94p41sbkuq1fq375opqsp63nk/37040096492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absigorta.com/E/file/patoxirirev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb976b0c26---72965766739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091422d21afe---4019413983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posekatzahradu.cz/files/file/18336759053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/699bfc81250d2abbd1f411145b81bccb/52488784819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kilincsweb.hu/fileok/file/84345300548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82d373b153749241a11c56c30f19bdfc/piwixudiroto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/780fff6cf440bd54f3dd33eb12130c27/6098991034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160975635c74c7---41850498363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010971.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10971 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 65e7743930b84a8917fd7bb3f25928bd15c7d96c46466ab01e5baa84666d1e7a
font_01_sfnt_off00012272.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12272 18152 bytes
SHA-256: aedbdc56a94f34bb051dc61206a87957ebad92edd2d0820cb7aa68147a6d71ae
font_02_sfnt_off000152a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1