Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72247c7c53d5810b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 14:42:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9b113b62d1f356055821f9fc4ca013fd SHA-1: 1dbf1687f6f0c5a9989984819495593c5add19c2 SHA-256: 72247c7c53d5810b9f08b0fa3ddc97a143e08f3e07cfd962db7dbf26a3ebe2ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, including those hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests a potential phishing or SEO manipulation tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=david+and+michal+in+the+bible PDF link annotation
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7d9ec71427db6705c2d9f50cfaeb266/43790710837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/wuxogavuviwemowidolaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayamedbursa.com/userfiles/file/1188104700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q8v8nuai1u7g4upq42iulp1iit/vitululaxuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160892ef153dad---megupopijokoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winkeleninzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/70291030157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bad5974929b---vadatadadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/585920b783dd69cb69af1649fdc5fe03/jovumerikifoxunapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d6d12bdf459aa0de4c608e3578694f1/22247574544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160890c51e808c---99017835437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iva-vietnam.com/userfiles/file/14030943038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210517030920264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caf-ljubljana.si/docs/66214260331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucity68.com/clients/e/ea/ea220da86df44fb0ae3b7c8e8295ccc1/File/43934245569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9cd0934138dabc2a8821fa3f882e4f7/1767560603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgt.eu/uploads/file/zoporipekudesonedodisute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/4999561286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5c4f7e10d5---zefisijunapolaxosed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc6802d9eb---xepezizifovider.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a105ac43924---94105850915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaperferiesantamariagoretti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/fezukadavazapane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/repokewiribu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/67483098927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c990c0a946b---kimomev.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_off00014150.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14150 17312 bytes
SHA-256: 95a1a83a47d83ccda7939f631238d5309bffbe1b3518314a27db51130c778719
font_01_sfnt_off00016de5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16DE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000185fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x185FC 10452 bytes
SHA-256: b059f78015a1d63e510179e93e548eeb43c3dd2734091ef3f707457fced82d64