Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72b1a6e5c0fefb21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-08-13 14:28:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: acb907abb0d13f3ad63a0cf47e5c15d4 SHA-1: dcba7eb1585a2bb7a391005c1b0aee694940c01e SHA-256: 72b1a6e5c0fefb217713b3169a7481a092c2954dc269aae563aee9c658fa8c65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65015bbfb619393f72e8ed66f18caddc/lemagejeruxopetamepaxodig.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chrislahoda.ca/userfiles/file/63423760943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/babjk6252cmkqdvljo3m96df4p/luguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/992df75f6648fbdda1773c3fb4513e2f/vijidobaros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31v9n8n29660ecibpgkj603v51/46119510824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clickvay.com/upload/files/wopaxizojukosakal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f0bb841ee8---vufedovetitetepafivovig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonioloclaudio.it/userfiles/files/6644302064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768708e4734---xaxifibabak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ff72b73254372754a4f5bc67d607a8b/xofezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b9737940e---21932424753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701bd31a831---86754877545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/siboxonelubigifideron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/devub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/repogilij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c66570a1856---31835023464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4246b5dff9592ef8201a7da6ef7ad9e5/zoxaxuruvotisifugixavof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drrajanmahtani.com/userfiles/files/2924298224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7f4d7c6ab9e9b7398ed704dffb5b93d/kejamavazif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609edf0c22ae4---belakirevubiziwagofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/36299998051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lumieretvie.com/userfiles/file/45670573443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905b2c08dc6---88170935283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dydlhx.com/upfiles/file///60361196088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=flowers+for+algernon+discussion+questions+and+answersPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d2d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2D9 2060 bytes
SHA-256: ec15c9b91f4803abbf3d77d058122fc164e2fe54e14f853c95756ec30c80e9af
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC4F 16928 bytes
SHA-256: 59dea4d0fcd728b477e8e110d2d1538132ecbaf217c8022658b1e083a5542601
font_02_sfnt_off00010814.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10814 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 48fa21a54bf4cf36d9ddd08fc5a93ace3846ab98e6dd123199a70861d1c5f749
font_03_sfnt_off00012135.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12135 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1