Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72798a8c6dc49cbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-07-31 23:57:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7b7149f8b3ddf20401343461015e6932 SHA-1: f298e7cdc1998b35422d490773d12780a931d7db SHA-256: 72798a8c6dc49cbb2c314328871c42624791ee0b33cf7d7336ec50abe7b61812
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The sample contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to redirect users to phishing pages. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm indicators strongly suggests a phishing or scamming attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=paf+cadet+college+sargodha+admission+form+2020 PDF link annotation
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc7282b39d10712393edec5deb039270/19083470233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anoh.net/pds/userfiles/files/pakupuvisoxibetobolas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/17756497890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fb26442aeacc0ed29288ea68fd350db/pupofonotinerumibejiruwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5022b6d9dc---jixasinutapupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6e49be5d3---30748108529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tt-ural.su/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jagurivogajali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virtualcharityevents.com/vce_cake/files/files/fuwetipinetinus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevimticaret.net/userfiles/file/laxesel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tailormade-sales-marketing.com/userfiles/file/40796591415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavereview.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piribedizat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da1f70c2e6---88274224373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martabaktelor.com/contents//files/nugezovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b966d64510---61529819117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4hs2gus7i4l5ns4u5jp7ki72n1/kevudixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-gallery.mn/uploads/files/jomataju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/75510184704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/45874096860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oskarmak.com/userfiles/file/42714763729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://licorne-hotel-restaurant.com/userfiles/file/vejivupomudixopemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3af7a1a963---vumijejedoborawipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2b5507fe2bcef82a54e18cd6e0d270f/96214051874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/skastbpqmjh54sh62n77rcmcdd/40302497175.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_off0000fc3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC3A 16524 bytes
SHA-256: 003fa1b31606c880f3ec29217f6d1804b49c414cc54804a305b515c59e427a1a
font_01_sfnt_off00012737.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12737 11168 bytes
SHA-256: ba28a93850a9c932edaff8e02271936e2062a79507388cd799851f0099abc42d
font_02_sfnt_off000140fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1