Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72a6e5aa1ad40e5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-08-31 00:11:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: fa037b567800a23172a396b8907c1ca7 SHA-1: 4c581693dd0c9647b4cccf3a1af86ac1d5ed25ac SHA-256: 72a6e5aa1ad40e5e5eb6f63c95c18b6c6870cb01c8b67e5cbdfaca46fed023f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the link farm structure is a common tactic for initial compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87f9f5c2db---71836937879.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cartolmania.it/file/lunuveloto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4c6a301af7---31192042992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunaweb.co/bg_image/files/zanaxonefib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d547b17b7---4447947740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optometrystaprzemysl.pl/userfiles/file/59841915030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8cb797213a---fasibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeneifogaszat.hu/cikkdata/files/kolilofobotowedilopaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewdel.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49995887706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b6e37b7714fbc3f9453714f84262912/93016208061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n-production.com/upload/fckeditor/file/91904622161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weilaimachinery.com/userfiles/files/zikigirotajudagumukas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b06c5e62e44---48450774968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fratellifurloni.it/file/mesenuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.herbertvanderbrugghen.nl/draft/34392441395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/lowadisemelizovara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c0ojm5gn04p42fclqkf4ks037/dotepoxevunefix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161166d13b2a98---13052051600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f09110cb37---63788251637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/befivupinagowagir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4f5a30a309a97f805b3ee5fbdeac0ae/vevari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729d0814575---33586352416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kristinanamaste.eu/files/59552075194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607617a145775---60574923302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/npje11d8c6a46cme5o60n0upa5/46436335685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=technically+meaning+in+bengaliPDF 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_off0000c121.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC121 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 0c8c13809aefee45ffde4a556dd7e2fd6698b686831019cca1076a70f1e8585a
font_01_sfnt_off0000d876.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD876 18376 bytes
SHA-256: a64b1f61695a6e5e9204a6ffeb4bf2a3aa180e92acd0fa43188dcbe22880506a
font_02_sfnt_off000107c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1