Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 726dd9ed363eac55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:17:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0b76b5951f099625a3bd01a17f10ff63 SHA-1: c2fa620ce17d8133a188db7a2616aafe97bc11e0 SHA-256: 726dd9ed363eac55b1b70c88e7bded25ab0341356196b82ea151ab6dd481b810
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm characteristics suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=modern+baby+boy+names+starting+with+he PDF link annotation
    • https://tasleemdubai.com/userfiles/files/21486889036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c603c3ed013---fabarinipijozedarevop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/fivebofakuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30a01ac26bc3f875305b0e3c5f300a97/44532993679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848fb59129a---99161925665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086cb2b3a41e---mezevuluzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinaktv.com/storage/ckfinder/files/zizokanigafebadojet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b663ec05bfb1abb3e8740eb116b56e4f/sozuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905eb014f15---87132004369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arlington65.org/clients/880802/File/selugol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hydratrend.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/titipubodevekoxupaguwazuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03ecd2011026b74c22d1452c8333508a/22280482611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/15012870224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210708_8DF1CAA7032717B7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59ff9376dba8a784cb51a8e9bf1e3874/53533849957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26e8c008ddf2a936e2fa94ecdaa2608f/xufetovorakeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/16029429366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e50a5df2cd---ragevabubivibebuxadiwetaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionriverside.cz/files/file/29856553960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2122c17bf8174ba50577802d098ea5fa/rudun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fd4e824efdbf1d44d511dfa3241d4f0/82131353383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesecurityguardunion.ca/userfiles/files/80317149268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7943c44f49---17627199431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/namiwegukovuwumegexipenuw.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_off0000d94c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD94C 18472 bytes
SHA-256: cf6c2194ac65fcba324fed63b139ecd3056e2591059f936fcdb99cc45c342097
font_01_sfnt_off0001091c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1091C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12133 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 8133b860c2c50cbc205b2231bb2f8c19645af43aa261087ad2ab268fc346295a