Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72cf93f1722895a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 23:22:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: af7102c33a30fbfc20f8e4f027ccffb1 SHA-1: 7e34b91bd8b861233547ed66ba1ac89ea3c235bc SHA-256: 72cf93f1722895a18a1ddd462617ae6d2cb3d84ee4141e7ca5c23cfcc8a26ef0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as a link farm. Heuristics indicate the PDF is designed to host a large number of links, potentially for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious payloads. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95a003d736f1aaebe4bec90aee758bd2/jomapejukideju.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://interno-kazan.ru/upload/files/40493223048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur1.com/contents//files/61876319138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/4806659456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786d30ec25c---bebijijel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gli5sud1jcvfdnmq9k1c7ih4av/37974315176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f55u222tkm25fnkb7e9rejvobh/gefulanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7a38354fa---sobabesusirat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba7a73a6bf---47112025821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/174143ed090c6e55a0cadd0b5e3cbcfc/buzegejekewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f070e3ecf9---31674132462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/papur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sriagasthiyarastro.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/310734301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dv7jhiqbnvnu74jq63pb6l0mc/rolifafadanos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7m7qbms71vilg9po2i7am2sdga/90213771567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gakobenozanen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/pugovekobasaxibuwugiguma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c962cd51d46---lelovoxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfb3e99ea087d272540f618862520f3c/ruvawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e95f4c32bfad0406029575dc5e75c716/vajenitatagilaxewofed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/53723747043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/18832695106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f9c68e28ea66f747fd94b9fbe5c89d5/fatawefofotinupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o-dance.com/upload/files/jexirigor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilimall.ae/uploads/files/24069243246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=sentences+with+to+be+verbsPDF 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_off0000e9d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9D0 18004 bytes
SHA-256: 75d91ec8bc96a7273b3a8776422388b5513970a9002260d27d577172dc250c78
font_01_sfnt_off000117c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012fdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FDF 10484 bytes
SHA-256: d4f9576ee4a4ab0132d696f30c8c2677654bd9be7c62eff504288f4d586d6e02