Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72b31b0648d430e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 02:11:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 770eac44aea5c7bf80ca430f825926cd SHA-1: 705be5d0662e1a1df0ba4e7122928ee15fe68d69 SHA-256: 72b31b0648d430e58b47e0be4292ab3e6f2a7d24acb291a2031e263bbd8a1c36
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the PDF format itself often leverage embedded JavaScript for redirection or exploit delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=national+average+free+school+meals+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c738cc6ecd4c9df93d51162aa2e2053/77621364247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yummyschool.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/pewebuwolavoxomimivaxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog//file/jutolofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unserbiokorb.ch/userfiles/file/rukanukoxusazewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac178ed0603---52926771371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bdd9b07540---13359395249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myblindz.com/fck_user_files/file/91342921710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160a7ee8c580f1---soviradowuxumegisos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608accf7f3127---zaposafefujumiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3k8fdsiaort42qn7c6r1cu2et7/duxisetuvisitolaravosusif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704e13342fb---88562563829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f6bf2ff048e32f533b667ab48f2c90d/74397998105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e98e8e387064d9f09c79ae6c45bb9de2/51421081920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gdtqvc6biepedkogo6celdcvd4/rugozixaruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tiq51pf01pallcgudrr22n8nf1/67447958454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-30/20210530073803724263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9fdb271d72---pamidal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/todomumebijanewamebis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3c7e90a4d---95587120690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baceac6ed62---kopopaturoribuzozosafisiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15ea2d810d---29006819636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee0c88bb4bbfb25f891e37d83a4fa01d/30638658940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0b18f1b9c6---46140886097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a850b550e---74634452136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winhazel.com/indigo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78947090166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00011465.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11465 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 614c8e0a86052c394335f6c7cdc616ad421e5b620bb6795d87f80847b5c9907d
font_01_sfnt_off00012e12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E12 17184 bytes
SHA-256: 35c3f34553b07c6744b1aaf0d745d530bb7733dd838a14c3fec5ec7eec47aa9b
font_02_sfnt_off00015ac1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AC1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1