Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72d1e0e121c6eb7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

147.9 KB Created: 2021-07-07 10:26:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 403b0bc27a92cd8381e7ef3e7c062635 SHA-1: 0a01f23c4488556c235ab164ca4d864163d6de3e SHA-256: 72d1e0e121c6eb7c1c4044d7d4d1b97f1c722ea34d5f0512fffcdce86e9a9db7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing sites. The presence of multiple links on compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting reinforces the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ee04e7ab4f6269d633ad4637acca627/54119417455.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://iva-vietnam.com/userfiles/file/rawuwazama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kk3ud2dm4cf7sr4vatksncv03d/riwinizutuzir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e16213318---22213742373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608356094ef72---359493806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.com/contents//files/jekinikoduzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/69124703591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4f1b2e5356---lesujux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastrotest.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vusabenol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/26810432570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a59d3bc58c5---mojeguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/judesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nhie1ctuotv0i6lbbh8hsf56c2/69733927986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15thstpresbyterian.org/clients/d/d7/d7025cfb1d4df99eee5a588ecc3dd57f/File/sowezazajiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ficsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q4bt55in9obg11p744t1bon2id/xajimepukuvavizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5s1f8gtj6l2neek9cr9875scvm/zufitikijizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765bb53ba68---vamajepenizozegubapug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1268b3lc7iqi23alj5kljh812e/zipomapakonut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafesezony.ru/fck_editor_files/files/41329475675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bycongroup.com/UserFiles/file/fuzodurodologixiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812af5b65d4---68417299792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/259096b41a3949e89d526d1c83477e9e/lezikowiluriwozoramusad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccb9e382d4---97666643474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-nederland.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bolome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=voet+and+voet+biochemistry+5th+edition+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0001dee6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DEE6 11392 bytes
SHA-256: 3ee33aeee10c6ea52a1d6be4664847b618e1cec19e8a5cd50dc19b90c2fcaa02
font_01_sfnt_off0001f97a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F97A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0002118c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2118C 18024 bytes
SHA-256: e08fdd090b1979733c5755be599962707de7b416f42f2e0ac0e06ff1f11f23ed