Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72a001fc24c098a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 08:04:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 99aa7dd008d5007003f7d05579906625 SHA-1: 7a0349589ae0668a9f000eb80d7bd94abbf1a02d SHA-256: 72a001fc24c098a77a16d147d52120955aebe6e3c863a3ee61eb860541d7cc4e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, with several pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The primary function appears to be redirecting users through a link farm, potentially to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://mybyblos.com/userfiles/file/44091235100.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21344647291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ues-rb.ru/themes/ues-rb.ru/files/vularulenawuxavipinox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turismo-galicia.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mexunasepukiluteduvubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giritrademark.com/content_files/files/45004780754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkykinhdoanhkiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/67433757448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elazentrale.de/images/uploaded/file/tasigalosavifazuraditadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gberwanda.com/gbe/useruploads/blogs/files/5334032888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161366f1e2295a---zanesoxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemxoi.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/47926615099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajajsports.com/userfiles/file/49935543747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technestudio.eu/userfiles/files/1547787050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90330d10e566a47742e804376da77444/rekevim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vektorma.ru/uploads/assets/file/64103103978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45580e3a90a268d5e94d6ac972c56ffa/pajomovipomikikujotofiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konyaalotaksi.com/userfiles/file/75578744295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/mudiloxokupajejepajuvubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinarwaja.com/account/files/57126297387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52fbc1ad0457536b9d2028e58d0cfb77/tezogurimileronu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotravenzolo.it/userfiles/files/janaled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mur836ea7i4crqh6dp7cv6t9ct/40719669855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobonvino.com/userfiles/files/xurelatukagiwuguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eskuvoiiranytu.hu/blog/file/dolorezarotojekoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamel2.pl/userfiles/file/pibenabiwuzawalozivonapob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachtungcompany.com/upload/files/50625515615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+to+excel+converter+big+file+online+freePDF 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_off0000dabd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDABD 17072 bytes
SHA-256: 2cc3d1e13914229897789d766b87f9425162d0ef3de0f17ae78b5c00eb7e7cf6
font_01_sfnt_off0001071f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1071F 10628 bytes
SHA-256: e198675a63fb05c928df472fc0349e2cbc62761bdb35be6b758c97929e31f1b6
font_02_sfnt_off00011f59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F59 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1