Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 722441fc9beca021…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-08-06 21:27:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 158f2378cda4d31ecc218a6ea3610fb9 SHA-1: bf34b2fd11538e144ccefa0eb674f3b21979d742 SHA-256: 722441fc9beca0218acbadb123e23ed85f6787cc27f0d7407842b59543a7e665
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple external URLs, some hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6715

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://dgxzz.com/uploadfile/file/13782507947.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mail.me.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210724_073724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezibra.pl/upload//file/54462512789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4008b8d3ebfb255fc468e64d6d5e3e75/keluvob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immobilgold.com/file/nukukakujamivapumegujipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modnyi-buket.ru/uploads/files/lobuwutagafifanitokabone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dcd5d82ece35856c54eca5538fefefd/30187189782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdbau-rauch.at/37174009981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cape-electronics.com/media/file/62632232147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8851521e8e---kijofufikutusigeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c798a8919151cf7fcd6eafc35a17e19/dinol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhoffordphotography.com/temp/files/file/84302268740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/15466395382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/99001526511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca37aecfea---85018737161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catbasailing.com/upload/fck/file/wipuxojegukis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/betevesurumep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/dazor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlight.cz/archiv/file/37987432545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/288c9abda577f969304e8f48e0914aa5/pisozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082aa7875a2e---xepegemipuguravubaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dohertylaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/58211803785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160933a8320531---5861152031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ekjhdua67ofj772t742klh6qh9/26985920477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=staar+practice+reading+passages+for+5th+gradePDF link annotation
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e5b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5B0 17096 bytes
SHA-256: c90fc3435700c7d29b4e628e5631f9c43d75dd8ba361a311f07a5547deb9da18

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