Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72b5a7779b027508…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-07-23 08:58:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ebdc59675872ccc20ee5797866f7ec28 SHA-1: 36b45b1f652e0ecd9a04a06b8fef6e15df8fff6d SHA-256: 72b5a7779b027508de821383db4ee5c813167741ac1d2d58b510d84e15a5a2e3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains. This behavior is characteristic of link farms used for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5681342a7a---46991785238.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4786cdac4---komujomoxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reinforcingourheritage.com/clients/0/08/0860c2a235168fe7e4a745c824023bdd/File/42264924079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takeacode.net/user/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e/file/tujugukazazikivavariweden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/ropesenuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/50684785410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba706852c4---lifowosulig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumonjfk2020reunion.org/clients/f/fe/fe8b949e9fe7e5065ccade199761aacb/File/48477233297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timavoshipsupply.it/userfiles/file/78328782091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/50594293255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthcareadvisorsgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cbslq0oet2ltuaak4d00dgqg6/20881952545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/95416516077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomas-music.com/contents//files/rusoriputamok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bptramptour.pl/files/file/xufitazatataj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepnguyentran.com/media/ftp/file/gutovubufipabojufakebako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f71502505c24a5443d04e21fbd5b9bed/31941342456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856a6755ed9---xuwimuviwagajadevonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098690a37c8e---39997887531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rowerowaszkola.pl/imgturysta/files/89092553134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsclassof1959.com/clients/a/a7/a7a82b2a6025f7fafce5d77be70bf845/File/besovolavuwebotorirup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/782qpouok3v5it204ceibildm7/xewolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termofriz.rs//files/xuvatovamufevividiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/homtol8h7faqemuhmmguhi4jr0/fubaluzimimine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=my+poster+my+wallPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f847a0ddff60750e086f80adac2a62f/79453965844.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://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_off0000ee21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE21 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 1792b43af11f3f16f6a67c81aed916ec460209dcc5d2eeaea3dece9a1b3d774b
font_01_sfnt_off000105e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011df2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DF2 17232 bytes
SHA-256: b619f6bbb3dbc90fe76a9f220cea4fd975f16478d539943424af45d10cd7ed3e