Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72821607e365575f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 03:01:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c4364f131aab83c224f19503b8f0a8eb SHA-1: 675fabeaa0aabb9f064449bcc9b5e8c0c94175fa SHA-256: 72821607e365575fb9149a1147f0a1aadce27d049b2c6e20fe9549b1f0659503
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the primary attack vector appears to be the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://freestyler.cz/img/file/ridexijirixofosokoze.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wingmanresearch.com/userfiles/files/rasomotiravuwizelogivuwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rickgrisolia.com/userfiles/files/39178031031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/na5kdrg5i2njq0cl109sd8a1r9/muxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab54436070a---74526081830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/mavinukavuvitovib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-koparki.pl/Upload/file/77023144669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ymy-tea.tw/upload/files/86601355402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/89056754623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomedchita.ru/imeg_master/file/92241084545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e60f09d171dc6f2bbf020f47c6767ec/moledevugobemavemasare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e375d2734da97e19c6f6fddc3d8908b/15449945766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f50c484fcd12a1065a0a33c2b73cbf13/4193266959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8b76a3ac4---67911383276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscartridge.com/pic/tugujiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail.teleserviciomalaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xipumazinofumujezavomonuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/102a5747f5503c21df945fbce6f37c6e/junobotunufewafuxewoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/335c3c3afba07588d66c5586dc254a12/29575939820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/nufutepoluwidemitin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marathon-gexin.com/Uploadfiles/files/diriganilujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gesas.it/media/mailinglist/file/zajusixanebuwapugobuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anpheatingandac.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/74603313339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=past+continuous+tense+worksheets+for+grade+4+with+answersPDF 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_off0000cbf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBF2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e404.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE404 17096 bytes
SHA-256: 13697c4f7f9ec5786095e81c33251ba8ec273526ebc7210250e43a5598f4cd73
font_02_sfnt_off0001103d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1103D 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 75a228ed6319321e92cc1f8b42d93c8b5c0603f6e9fa8df0747619f39973e273

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