Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72c3e3180e97ac5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-10 03:08:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 245d2fa8ecd5b9f781ad42cd606674d9 SHA-1: c2c5f7e5f372995a8b2644f58c45a02fcb536a7c SHA-256: 72c3e3180e97ac5a568bcbb769a061b3e56319719ef35c72401e06bc28c1df50
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or domains flagged as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or directing users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 http://architettoletiziamasciotta.eu/userfiles/files/35140314263.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jbgp8frl4sgeds1g0o98g2m6l0/kixujijarovan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tagsu.com/attachments/fckattachments/file/dabuzofagalabigufetabarav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lovebliss.tw/UserFiles/files/81624802164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133ce5974ac2---ropinewagewedataba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiprapublication.com/uniformkontakt/userfiles/image/files/gakevumopuwisabobedib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacie.vn/web/uploads/files/furilorofefurowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133f99d66263---rejapubelorutoninutov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doktor-ara.com/userfiles/files/43025589344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanizsakran.hu/userfiles/file/32171084186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopiergentili.it/userfiles/files/7676088175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huabulaw.com/uploadpic/2021-9/file/2021090500564673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfanchem.com/upload/files/44563862292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----0tbbbfo0f.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/fisitemuduzizenataruxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132691bed144---xoroso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oasis-inwaste.asia/files/file/gizofovatemopepiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomayaku.com/userfiles/file/32613201972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d40e2724088fb6a4e166aa341bc0c19/mevawugosufibizet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--q20b13r9leepaeb.net/upload/file/202109090249004920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totoquynhhuong.com/upload/files/18331809589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=live+backgrounds+pc+freePDF 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_off0000d7b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7B0 17604 bytes
SHA-256: 1fc8750394cfff5e81e211ed7a6d4379bc12f201e5124bf7604558e701725fad
font_01_sfnt_off0001050d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1050D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D24 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 7be32aea145b9f704c548db618b5b556e112bd2ddb336894f84e205e7a07e70f