Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72dc1aeb0073d93d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 13:53:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6a38545f6eea93b6efc5a40241ad857f SHA-1: ccf35d7e30cc8fe9e03106f4266273d453b0de0a SHA-256: 72dc1aeb0073d93da40c50bd67169f4673daa93b6715a84f71bd250d3a5d0a8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The file's structure and numerous external links are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=exercicios+sobre+first+conditional+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/59385396301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alocainghien.com/uploads/userfiles/file/juwudululomego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wizzfizz.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pipuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabortech.com/admin/file/tixemonemixabegiduzire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf322c7303ea067e93ab1b762b800d99/visunonit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.temaricerca.com/entry2013new/admindia/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53642739137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f112748f95---69258616592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l6iintah8ko42tpjr0hqu8nsqe/gawuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/megiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803098415ab---nijubegusivutunotutol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/meqdder9j9sa2fja30j0d777cf/80707891120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ff17129de3fd6176ef8befb4aef6e77/xuramazowelawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b84983f1e---zosegufaduxetitumexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k3projekt.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/wuwanejuruxareg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.enjoyvaltellina.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dokaruwulebozokikaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160ab7af551b92---7134444302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a7a7944ef0341b85aed47dc0f83c0c7/47727546219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8bbc0ea34033014da67ef1fb8bd74fd/diworakunupilexebubape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurouniversal.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15065106467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gesas.it/media/mailinglist/file/kijafefisovilekelosujive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca126d9f10c---rijokefupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608228e71a940---92139744256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlionshousing.ca/userfiles/file/banaxofasedelita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/44216295168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2024f9ce43d80feca53375f799619b73/29992382698.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_off0000e42a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE42A 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 65a6447cfa0d538077e97ce0b2e77e99c72ddc1f1830a2b9d7e93efd6454cfeb
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD1D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001152f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1152F 19284 bytes
SHA-256: 29171b83be30d8d6b0fb335380b7ee19a6d2185f2f259b92323898197a5bb760