Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72873b46fe3e09c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 12:45:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: a14362987ebd2f005681d0b8d7b1a392 SHA-1: d2a5de23ac44f1de758f1bb7a4381db56b3bcd16 SHA-256: 72873b46fe3e09c0430ad3f2e61694a573f611aebf9cc16eeeff9a5c90a3d7a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da63fa627b---67132540796.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/90074095429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhhangkhong.com/upload/images/files/47102921160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/sezitovazutevogomobedoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quaint-house.com/images/blog//file/44090024669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45cb4ef5e661fa4ff67c5c0f208e7e20/danino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/pewanalodozeriviboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7potn6vn3giumr9amnjdvcgil7/15318321271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d94a8a573573dcd5fcdcf33fbdaa1e14/vudinorak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af0f31d28ba61c3ad7e4e27dfa5a9a80/88632835156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkagenap.com/contents//files/xiwepijemomarumexiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/27978694367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8211ca797e---pujib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sylvianapoles.com/clients/e/e6/e63d90d46a840f0b3195f531cec11f6e/File/29701066351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/20650594241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608057b649e7f---95753439850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afd2f7498294829e6e8c20151e47be07/tufaviduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e2e6174eb62f1d95eeb3095c96df5f7/xiruwurow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c939f3df98---fodiwavaxixuxavonetogew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/958su0p83s01beorq5eogl1tu3/vavapozukapikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/47702869063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f35819e505---5824971097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749ea9b1717---78417285270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6cd94629b8---dikojidixakiwosanupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/79613182043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=43+yards+to+feetPDF 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_off0000f3fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3FD 10372 bytes
SHA-256: eedecc120dc828d4d65a4e62c905f5416f0441d06afeb8e333a9567d10391a23
font_01_sfnt_off00010ba2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BA2 17940 bytes
SHA-256: 6ba0f1406adeb6dbd0932b161f182f4b51b722b547b8634997f1d1f77167f8e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013a9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1