Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72ab92bd771e7160…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 00:14:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 99b72d4eb09b8cb428fc8cbbd4768f9c SHA-1: a835008df328447a067a7cac1beef79b6e8df972 SHA-256: 72ab92bd771e71602255fbf90f2be8bf3c28c94557ea4a7a20d37262aca47a0b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier returned a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous URLs were extracted, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure itself appears to be a link farm, with many distinct hosts and URLs embedded.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+clear+unused+data+on+android PDF link annotation
    • http://wernersuarez.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dujefudesovapusetagum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/32220114290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promptcorporate.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88458792161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a532c2daa4---jozamasazovoniveni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akwarella.pl/user_uploads/file/sivegutoduga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161392d48c8c48---26495616218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicamanila.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68493404263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islaminkiel.de/webmisr/uploadwebmisr/file/musetovesikat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arablift.net/userfiles/file/munugakilodorulewodesetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dveropolis.ru/upload_picture/kadelanukijuxajusov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hertzlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/74526470243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matonaklawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/risikobudaxikofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svarovani-tig.cz/userfiles/file/rixesakew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanhbon.vn/media/ftp/file/5103616511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insureavisitor.com/userfiles/file/varodesokuvobudub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stainless-faucet.com/uploads/htmlupload/files/2681515796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirkongrp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61310070996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consorzio-csa.it/userfiles/files/50071447224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheliabinsk.realxenon.ru/uploads/files/94446883824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catedralirodahaz.hu/data/editorfile/56581809840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novinfasteners.com/userfiles/file/gusam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137b87e1ea3e---bosomib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfeahwarn6ac1adp3fb2p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/taduxenojok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spc1991.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9624371180.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_off0000f100.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF100 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 34b43f9b5540e476a1e8419df6080210aba831750141f8f2ae7fbe57509c1a28
font_01_sfnt_off00010921.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10921 17088 bytes
SHA-256: 8fe57118a272d5876a8b643c136142c54d08df3ba0e7b89cbef717f284519087
font_02_sfnt_off0001355c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1355C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1