Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72708e787223e3ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 15:46:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 37a0e3a50ee2553699fb7572fea29944 SHA-1: a98c479e0cb41a751becf72ed96184ff9e00cfbf SHA-256: 72708e787223e3ceea2d1a0bdc1c3047760ee33edc64869f8fde4d2f2961a607
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm that redirects to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or redirection campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the embedded URLs point towards a spearphishing attachment used to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6054282420---87882136402.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ba9e1218c---totezojodebezogupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8f11e226c55681d86870e1e7e007b08/48075425581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattingtoemrerogsnedker.dk/userfiles/file/petasuwimavaworominuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matkinhantai.com/luutru/files/lijidagudakopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/jovile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/kaperorinarajeser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csaladiegyteruautok.hu/userfiles/files/turafifejitanibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8eb9ceeed8---641454753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4d2637a81---93721850885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adafe2c04a6---fufoduzedifoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tramag.pl/upload/file/tapow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759052ab539---3816909997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119df3ee98c2---68023359585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/napoxedilame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thailonghoang.vn/upload/files/16195139842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c29d2c1bf---40625998636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f70adecf0---nixowijifujemanegobefaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienlongadv.com/upload/files/33176189234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vcjahj3uit0cie7kqj39fu4166/nijuzebazowukatujogom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/wivepivog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=egg+yolk+composition+pdfPDF 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_off0000b3e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3E6 15196 bytes
SHA-256: 144b9a730310c7842592e0e4c931a7d63fc1ea6a65b733ca4b9da22c862d8349
font_01_sfnt_off0000dabc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDABC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2D3 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 6c01088b8bb1ad273cf2b419fc555d1af306ba68d8417643c01bad44e2287f8c