Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72b4d8707f3c29df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:36:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ea442fc47147fc7c599652a90a66b67a SHA-1: fd929617722a1035693cc036fe39bb562bfcd5d5 SHA-256: 72b4d8707f3c29dfd0650bd0ceb8b934454b7ed8ba29dee0e9fc37e1674906c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest an attempt to lure users to external resources, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://asianaccounting.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/figuxolufokus.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/fasev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5190kg1phha3s8i4mgqtbl3r3/retutofafuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncfc.com.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jewokiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/bomogufodowufopudiligexix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c5ebb9ce7be0fd92ccf820a981800ec/xoponobizenarijajanojamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e38b9bfcf4d47a8254dd7afa96ff38b7/niwuzexamatipebuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cycling-software.com/files/file/bikelotexosapibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiduongmetal.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/digagadozotav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48eeaf34f26d8e637b98e8c033062527/pogejade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/belebunanad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8980f35bc9---14761036470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/bozewuxezow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arbormaster.net/uploads/files/zovufij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110bce9dc541---66371817894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaketiga.com/contents//files/vafuwadenemumexeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavaszitura.eu/userfiles/files/sovidipugaropedexuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2e74fb3919c4373adc89eacc5b9c634/lejimidokanepiveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081325e727d5---dutur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64ae0acb6b57aa085ed93aa01c3714d6/karirilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffe852f797---nulajigugizonivuwotejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7nrhtqk660697pkrnchcub6pot/xuzevipupodizujokev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwstationery.com/files/file/99404048386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starwindows.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/momoruve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=salesman+job+description+pdfPDF 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_off0000c906.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC906 11124 bytes
SHA-256: f65036d45f7f87f47c8f36dac9c459305e66a5d2000a3cfe13471de4bb5ce2ad
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2AA 17444 bytes
SHA-256: dc3407f17eeb0af8701a2d9c27f1fdb29b3a6f7bc973294c206df9b854a60db4
font_02_sfnt_off00010fa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1