Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72b5643ac2e81de1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-15 09:50:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2d3ea8df1b572facd99af3a05e315c0f SHA-1: 80f0146f3102332c5ac98d856d3dee94e0f20a43 SHA-256: 72b5643ac2e81de17ad217d2d332cc7766f19fc7a9823ebf06e903366719576f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what%27s+a+finger+monkey PDF link annotation
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/gafilifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylplj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wotitusulukikum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42bed0c259baf79cb003bd8f99c52332/62569526180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/71806571801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/31369444759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/benezezuritetefukalefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4cc6c5bf87b68165752e258d1d99f9c/mexuzuxusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7h5beib766f95rukgq2ov62te2/lisaluke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b09ss78p7oqu81lff7su1vaao2/7169865941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/levilokaboguxuruzilatejum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://microcement.ua/userfiles/file/wobuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgpropertylawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f904c3e174f8ab47fea42c3a831c7086/mologexudabogefazovuves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e9feaf000---30052571558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesprotia.gr/uploads/file/40719953895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ebfa994d23---gidoretevus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d8ca0e9df---65430887415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/elhlcfnspnjc20esbcl2dcc6d5/13152976185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e0620c2f2---59607493695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9c5d385e55---47739628716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/70640677343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc53db64ef04b39acb62187f26099786/bolanevexamagax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wienbildarchiv.com/upload_files/files/jipojofexemaxiraxemam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e23c1cb7a52---63197089589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoaisonland.vn/upload/files/nazux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083db5b87bdb---17725998275.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_off0000f373.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF373 16712 bytes
SHA-256: 5a93b32fdf8b91f537315fc6674347dc4a28ea983e5e9c3d6d259de04944f45c
font_01_sfnt_off00011ed9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED9 10848 bytes
SHA-256: e1bb0e46a33287bfa6a9f34a9790ba91969a43819a8d742ffea4b24a34cb22d6
font_02_sfnt_off000137d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1