Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72d3136e312258c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 17:51:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 6ae2f12233049d0396fd47a2d5c6ff9c SHA-1: c73697dd39a1ce76cca3ec273d67dce286267f49 SHA-256: 72d3136e312258c7fc8725a52805b2042dd6c67e11cc263b5ac0c98a38fb5ee0
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document may provide instructions for accessing a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass security filters.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=all+patterns+to+unlock+phone PDF link annotation
    • http://sensitiva.fi/UserFiles/File/58128544796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/53061015133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-immobilien.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96362140756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patidarpalanpur.com/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/garufumato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasco-ye.com/uploads/file/37880280451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9520c149d95b9b31effa171df07d0636/48665550675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vnv.nu/admin/library/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23370849114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homestationrealty.com/userfiles/files/42559769313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613798e37b5e2---1095877483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kledingindex.nl/images/uploads/fovipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5042461259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thucphamtruongxanh.com/Upload/files/56512832626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yesfabric.com/images/upload/File/tedabap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xetaihyundai.net/upload/files/69343374922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8e88715ec176a47206757f2d683ff1b/getaramisapofizekomufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f0168911e6---55939253343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canionglobal.com/FCKeditor/file/juzejalupuxejisubop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vwb.mrv-educationservices.com/content_file/files/42595424842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/satij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaihungthinh.com/uploads/images/files/dulurazenovawozabasapodaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133e554e2a67---bosesevibezezekegigup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahsport.cz/userfiles/file/nadug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brincandoeaprendendo.com/fotosempresa/files/51444410146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cupanghitam.com/contents/files/sivasuxiw.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_off0000c48e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC48E 17172 bytes
SHA-256: b39de89fdd2c84d13b0efd51519ce1aefdf7a2186bd3270eca2baf6436425cf1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f178.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF178 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001098f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1098F 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 2c4a6ad099478f0658b74be74d940880b7baca9f75a2a19c3d66ee89944d4891