Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72caa7bfc9fae697…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:25:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 5d6249976a3484bb868829220f5da52e SHA-1: 8a79145c169c6f9d10d5e90cf1ee7d55d4a25870 SHA-256: 72caa7bfc9fae6976fac3ec48d786c57cc5a4a9af8723317db1752147b6e0484
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses an urgency-based lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=maths+indices+questions+and+answers+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://sibzakon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rupepizojaxasemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/6784687424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/016e1a5779d31faa883716b95fd655f0/nezabopivabeforoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071696a6db3f---96053266902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/946f6f68c1396e2302dbc45b64ca1ce3/badapolinupadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ff60aa0937bb2b2e1880f838a0343af/9952972332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtcguild.org/clients/80367/File/80539473233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datong-travel.tw/upload/ckeditor/files/20210811180413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yngc.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58721159207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc1a1d93ff---vibebuluseroxefotebujeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/5813871724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b3fa5f79faa1e287455d740d50fcb8b/vevav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48a03fc685a41a9e4ef13f53ba301b72/fibofedutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ashsnca9f9s2v1cugthinlms6k/26222814489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/ditux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/jarojepazedapumagobomosaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://townofwinslowin.com/flash/townofwinslowin.com/file/mopivuvaroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rjbmachinery.com/d/files/virobagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080756e47a4a---kerevilat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaemsp.org/upload/editor/file/zuwowasitufamuzudasanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmaciasacoor.com/site/upload/file/3884504199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/50923009772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbe749f5b043dc40c0162cffc0cd3308/59474928707.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_off0000d9b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9B9 10996 bytes
SHA-256: abab160f4f640881e9bf17e272b284463de2f2f77b7862f01d48130160fe9551
font_01_sfnt_off0000f312.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF312 17468 bytes
SHA-256: 0caef45074ce70a1d008b42fe76136dd75a3473b6bd2d522213029300ee0b01b
font_02_sfnt_off00012014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12014 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1