Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72adf72f1f673a67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-07-16 17:00:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b05702e87a54fe6e3ba4c135bd2395de SHA-1: bda98910040cbb8a6a0ecb2b8fcc3cfb1d6c180b SHA-256: 72adf72f1f673a676e6d0f9a8a3491c1ec480f2212da1e92ed1c6cccb3abc0a3
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's designed to host and distribute malicious files. The heuristics indicate a lure related to invoices or service agreements, combined with urgency, to trick users into clicking the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be47113744d29b28afe61a037d020628/13201660076.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/90583869007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b8faca609---59396749354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096afa66b3af---dalep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f49ec867b82f586bdfef17f2db0ef5fa/wufexobuzevibufotiguxuras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pendekaremas.com/contents//files/29314844632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thingstodobahrain.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wupenogosevotelusuvok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fca5b8a1f1f505ea910e026081f887e7/38237868192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycolaborativo.com/uploads/files/29364087422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68a2c8ea774b143c74ec38a4546ab680/10147478063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jdhs77.com/clients/58520/File/13320864652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podereilmontaleo.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/kebegakagogafadasobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/51194549739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiaangkorhomestay.com/userfiles/file/nidana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contactfm.be/userfiles/files/bamurufuvamanatamudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e3b688342---12085131306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b60a553dd3a---bonubixigovivexubozixog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80b365f0e4c7c96c64b75bb1872b55ad/judutekurezedasufutizek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daindnc.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/wubopiwilukom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/56028859493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a802085c44a8ae5e1cac0a5923dddf4/ralaletolujowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ksgvasd7i6o834u0k6i8fr9uek/44402723835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ce339eb71c---8416603189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://starwebline.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gopixemajojavonilabuvawut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prplus4u.com/ckupload/files/56206414219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=master+service+agreement+samplePDF 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_off00011237.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11237 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012a4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A4E 10656 bytes
SHA-256: cef14c1a32b2d9e218690a26122370633052e38db4d12d17d538ba4d96351096
font_02_sfnt_off000142b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142B9 17776 bytes
SHA-256: c3db9f6ea81106794b0bf21e4ee4104b0f81af21bfa3be506483dd6cb273a96e