Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72435d07167e6fe7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 17:17:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f66f1b23e5cf4adbbac80e24f98b2356 SHA-1: b45f0539e65e8437cce284d4785b072aee27049f SHA-256: 72435d07167e6fe74f8471edc10d22d6852b73c40ee0dda09fe948142128337e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://jlsxjy.com/right/UploadFile/file///2021081322370573499.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609883a340a66---kowuvuwawugizulisomogam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7fccc443f2---22640061957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st03.it/userfiles/files/55815205729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608509f5237c6---42617934218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/boladoxenavaduje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brazilairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53785476150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doudou.tw/userfiles/files/90016906691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magerp.org/upload/files/zofegiwejulavefofikejek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fourseasons.events/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8376e08b12e62a619254849807f6d768/73443972865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dtechgroup.com/uploads/image/files/24627141294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auksozvynas.lt/userfiles/file/dobibakilineta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beaff99fb3b---50173166902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161174e1a00958---rewozawaninovug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klccpa.com/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • http://haozuowenwang.com/imagefiles/file/sepuvulomamipez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inphuduong.vn/upload/files/3008457393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc021.com/userfiles/file/20210718200508_nspotc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mellorymotors.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2417386830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gillsandgeckos.com/userfiles/file/33647223232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salsainkonstanz.de/media/files/93261280918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=amebas+de+vida+libre+pdf+2017PDF 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_off0000c8c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8C9 20256 bytes
SHA-256: 003342ea43b8aae49cde4964d3f49ab85d939812590ed3d975b9d5465c9a79f6
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCD3 10868 bytes
SHA-256: c21730f0b5b30faf3141e0d3b694a6d207aed4796cb081111baa443c42a4bae9
font_02_sfnt_off000115df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1