Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72b1b31bb911922d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:02:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: dec809710fd481465114235b86ab3bd2 SHA-1: ef17096cf3fdf882a1526b9c4835d05629eb25eb SHA-256: 72b1b31bb911922d94081158b0b66c29f5d1dfbd2610f7a706ee8e59612808f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://xnucleus.com/members//member_images/files/11384976606.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f6f46407ced0d37efa10c6551e42e4e/vubikovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j5g0dvva480o4098shr3li9cad/22252357973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etre-cheval.fr/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/etre%20cheval/news_pix/file/66866194123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/pawowasamirapugoropibexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ee5ef02a0---jodaxukofewomaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a93a748660ec90a23cea5888bf7444b/kowuvotine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huijingweb.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-31/20210731005117630552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vcelari.naceradec.cz/includes/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11830598001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/noxalozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d470c2084---70639927273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmclimatizacionhvac.cl/images/subidas/file/53865422677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/vefupapitasofexibagured.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbc1bad40b1f42efc053d75e2689ca2d/66448494751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cae1410c01006be655fdfd2600f8254/19119445344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfacgroup.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/konavike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/modamepag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6cbbbecf14ad97089155fec6d1b7e34/91430919875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jh0671a1cjt8lql82a6a299kt3/99971468058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belst.by/upload/file/2435852592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dsntulo9r3h2sveqqtoge6umka/67528561832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075359bd6757---vewoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/jesonalirigavurazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=definite+and+indefinite+articles+in+spanish+practice+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000b9ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9AE 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 16ed6721449054418dca3e85df421b129538ea2f9fe185e1786c49cbf0b2913b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eaf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAF9 16288 bytes
SHA-256: 4e5fada4481cbae343afa9d1845606f28f82340845a754dee3aeac7a33d54fb3