Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72ce930a117289a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-05-22 18:55:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a469d7e2631c6263eb5337dee8322903 SHA-1: f3063a2cd196eb3bdd795717aa4736f197e3dbbc SHA-256: 72ce930a117289a7d5db1bd1d4f3c87ef5086e53af0a3c106b7dfa9c0b51096e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to potentially harmful sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata from wkhtmltopdf, but the primary malicious activity appears to be the distribution of links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rngpprjadjhj141fvfanm2lm7g/dovixeti.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89l0v8rm4v29erpt2p3ajki081/81446795777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e38d0441ab---63302842070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160964cc1eea3b---71417172909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093adba717fe---41428336442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/tikerovufivovetut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e7f71751f---6505615787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35b64b04e02e469fbb52e11179bb6987/fibasenujatad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608883e4d5c37---97854594351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f14f9308d0990f80011c066f64d4a1d7/kumafezijapidurut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b8df66465---95850272751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1232d4e6d856ae74628fdc3473177153/11904097523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b972e25d3730eab24f1d43cd82496f5/safebetovarati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d5c85ce4c---dobuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=ouroboros+meaning+definitionPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d0f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0F5 2972 bytes
SHA-256: 58d57dbf1cce936347ca7471b2ff1814838416484fbea0fdd6c82954352fee64
font_01_sfnt_off0000db9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB9D 5364 bytes
SHA-256: 7b7a1b8bd028d3b6e4de622b4a2e60ad1bd6ef8544f79d9f28297039e5d5d593
font_02_sfnt_off0000edb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDB7 10068 bytes
SHA-256: b178287bec3e32b44a5ec182127d55313e86892af224340017fb7b9bbff21dec