Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72ae9254d9c75c7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-05-03 04:00:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d57236f13146f473f3e9d13464aac826 SHA-1: c14da798902402381ff0bf4809a4d3fd176a21ba SHA-256: 72ae9254d9c75c7f97eecc2da50dfa16e5da29f94e7e5c0edeba4709b9054f87
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm heuristic strongly suggest this document is intended to lure users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723e4a2f270---xiruzamog.pdf
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s4rjo0rdp174rt4he9uuet3pa3/jusutugomolug.pdf
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810a4c3dd58---kejokutopul.pdf
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0194700e48d09093599d944ac4cc3af2/japamukegixeloj.pdf
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082428000bf8---tivebazojipisutikirosemew.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e403d7e2f5---96166569043.pdf
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763db71c91d---fuletedixilowid.pdf
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/73088952588.pdf
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d2f2e1544---retoz.pdf
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608010dc0d69b---tinukifusim.pdf
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4c8a317ae2d7950d9caa5aa3122f99f/28508199317.pdf
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d856fd696b0987259d0d64774614365/41967750739.pdf
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dl2tegqjbnjr5l6la8rvelcgnq/jarutupujapowobekakesulup.pdf
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd8r9c6o5c6slerktr73rpu8k9/68286184498.pdf
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d26be8d6d4---jufafesoredofirevavona.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=academia+boa+forma+erechim
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d5fe.bin
677b0557b35401cb83b1eb1abb3bf552385cd6a4087f535f76e4ec19484095a1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5FE 4784 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e62c.bin
6cd07179af0826ccbbd50578bbbaf7602576a23532c12dbd713da44e6aaa8fff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE62C 12580 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010d18.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D18 4324 bytes