Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72e20089f7c05af5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 04:18:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9186f2302e2e041dfa708ab753cfb4d1 SHA-1: 47061134cd4a512b4b6f6be1560f3cb50382b132 SHA-256: 72e20089f7c05af594e0d88557780034418f181f8c29bda9de68b5dc14f8a0f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful external resources, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9910

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 http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be8e274ef3---52969613167.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778727c4364---95698292517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wegofa.com/userfiles/file/39005889606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609320263b201---sorupemedifug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd65017b5d8---19350331897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac93bfd95263dca54313d3c409e4800d/jobudonagajafofajegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinka.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tijodevanowofuxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/26214143196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/file/65771788907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105020653122174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/sokafoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/tudimosigulanogopuran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riggi.ru/userfiles/file/4930175941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5306ee1d5613f892c3de8310600cafe/wibisotefafago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943f417d0f8---80826763227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609899b254af6---93835034858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38a65b6ea5ab9b3613bdfb70407161fb/bumakatamiginowawovonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/546adfcb53848c3f8ff90af7aaded728/63210071000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d740449e2---xidukojulabevezixosowadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/kewawilojadegenepefasimum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/552d17f0c37581b1a0ad411b45314ab2/pivijerivugijoparebab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3be15c9ead---25804020862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aadq3ae7aa5k.xn--p1ai/upload/file/19412792090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50818ad8697be30b796419380bb5bfef/rosovejigosogebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=double+chocolate+cupcakesPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ffbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFBB 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 7d15b2d6d265aaca51dda18faee70a1b8fa9d95ed54cb111fb0895789092f9ae
font_01_sfnt_off000115c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115C2 18140 bytes
SHA-256: 19e7026771057c37fa5d2457ea237b39e36091e82977dc7fc28d0ad32600c04b
font_02_sfnt_off000145a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145A2 10508 bytes
SHA-256: dc5457300edc04e4c4a70465f871c48e076c8a85ea333783b56e79a9f0935959
font_03_sfnt_off00015d87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D87 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1