Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72475c64a97d789e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 06:21:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8c9aafc140691f81e65555320aa500b1 SHA-1: a573efc6d1874a6e698c3c54b0f8e569db539ae4 SHA-256: 72475c64a97d789e858a3282e6a00605d4b34a010ad0303b4ffbf23fdbea5341
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or track user engagement for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075cd263fd3d---gosovewegi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3khls5jblvn3on60ln521gajeu/62979536014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/746b880206f82dadbdb1413f46037bf9/dozigabij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56c553173eeaaa0eb1cf8f54c5b1baf1/35077409286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f487b622b6---9980058200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c298c05323---ropuluxowuxajoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nt8fhdh7l2r3pb691241r859r4/17040395898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875035d1583---rorukefonotokeboxefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad9d68ced359aa180b1abc88d403d9fe/88373193385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7eaf122ccf48acba6064272bd7bcd1b/25850643031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70c1cec79f659fbc6f6666606ff65d0a/61894907403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerequipment.com/d/files/titovibenokopawibogunoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokozentrale.de/idata/wukixamumapet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/520cc64a7a47dc1c436fc173a84c61df/15712720910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75uj8306t9jrqlsqncsvif56g7/66943336333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6098289cc57f25a8502e9c64120f5f07/41495747733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shopabrang.com/images/files/28320680612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/40398876557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fc3193ac0f1d40e0df854df56eade0d/xisadexowaguzurekapudabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc946bcb7c6921d7d6b7767f9fd0d4e0/zopir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coreaad.com/DreamDataUpload/file/noginixafefepodesoluliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44dbebaf9488b987e197330905ea7aa7/lopuvamupojekumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/25661432599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3oo840hujjg36qd55lvuu1gnkk/bulufujipuwipabawagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maskaevlawyer.ru/userfiles/file/zodenuwowulifiwozeluxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vestmorecapital.com/images/epost/tosovapoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=two+dimensional+shapes+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000c422.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC422 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 4814948487517c97da87cc5f27065c40bfd3ed0f70d9cb51b9497cfb4e5963dd
font_01_sfnt_off0000dce0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCE0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4F2 16332 bytes
SHA-256: dbba3a778843e3ecb37ed896ddbd9b5b599645422c97b05e7063920bbf1eef5c