Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72bb7928566e6303…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-06-08 00:29:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 50181b22793da67b7f60100d336d83ee SHA-1: b5fb889d7bf19408f058bb537a0617b7c74ee99b SHA-256: 72bb7928566e63030fe708e5073f61f87dca73ee1d6f1065e7e8bf316dd986d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily garbled, appears to be a lure related to music, possibly to disguise the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aurelina+dourado+a+vit%25C3%25B3ria+chegou+m%25C3%25BAsicas+semelhantes PDF link annotation
    • http://longvu.vn/Images_upload/files/lexuvofalesavonabim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondasushi.com/uploads/files/6927255727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608818c94d9b8---82201561981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607666abd7c6a---lepifimiwinizef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7cdc9f020---gidebomenojuvefogolufujir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cd2b6f61efad669b271c9512d23ba36/71257103566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/xefenemipetaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e527e33096---95969694757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morabia.fi/images/file/kuxobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d37a72c986---xolaletagusexemakako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ai9mr7ujgaipj0i7f36o2smkd4/21778433173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb383dc9241032d84615f328128a5fda/83678096629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1to2jfjfenj2lu3sbo253gt061/boguzopurozuxizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labcoop-jsc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fsdpbkll7aajf2dirss75t27k/potijuvuvubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607066755f7ad---43076472189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g89l1n0kglf28g7rqg2570tvj9/73791076818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d369.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD369 9416 bytes
SHA-256: 857e394c76a210b448bbcc70e6e38b38ddecf8a2646df5378f1624537ecbaee7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f30e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30E 5656 bytes
SHA-256: bdbdb3f57174def4c8b6fe3463d09b0b84ec1bf0f7cd7bbe7c00fcca6285c8ff
font_02_sfnt_off000105a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A3 11508 bytes
SHA-256: 461a0602475ca036ee04c11e3fb578f52900514b7409144cdf06c3e7ea03c489
font_03_sfnt_off00012a9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A9E 3828 bytes
SHA-256: c164e8ffbba18175d477d7574d36c7958b1744c1f04904daf6c885f6c35538cc