Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72acbbd0ee234693…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.4 KB Created: 2021-07-22 18:35:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c2964de961fa5beefc89c46f5f466d78 SHA-1: de95e69a2c794411e2e17e77fcdcea4684c12548 SHA-256: 72acbbd0ee234693d9d172694a486216d2af7650fd2b199cbcc02c69829bee1d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and the ML classifier also flagged it as malicious. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/41922326403.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/127368232260c69603d2ae6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhahanghienminh68.com/upload/files/luvazot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e2a4e3aeca945e2f5534064a055f1c4/nadefemudubiveboganudeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jh7b8b3i5p4m5v24k6m67fps41/vevolemun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-21/20210721230506645253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c14562643f7---wufusavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/snfre8p4audj8ndvk54k07s82o/posexijezafinamaduxepune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27926337799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700cbf08f91---rujabusilisuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildungrice.com/fileupload/fckeditor/file/98221541574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungnguyenjsc.vn/uploads/image/files/fosinifavazugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a472b0b5948---xabakofurenewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/besabuteti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1hs8k5oov9bd6sdu0dt46mrqj0/60554407398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1f61df6273143b4c832e32c831412e7/86728276902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd33c8923d---legafexivupataxorulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrosteadycam.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94d4fc7eb7f0487b6ba1ccdc91e598c4/55347348912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/wutonawopinelizeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e5b035d56---46823832331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/975e78e86f3e7eba49ff219878570ca8/kuwajutebejokilamopalufen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccs-corporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90038116165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8eb20b86e4---taradoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skisun.it/userfiles/files/kumikumufidorixemedimope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=constant+multiple+property+of+definite+integralsPDF 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_off00012a11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A11 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 244ce97e1ba7d6d251886aac82612df2a9da8341d9379e92e0309e582b07d984
font_01_sfnt_off000143b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143B9 17200 bytes
SHA-256: 44172bfe9542303a860e044f7dd499025e27b9c99f447c5166e551da70373090
font_02_sfnt_off00017133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17133 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1