Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72e98b91649099f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 12:14:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d449acaf4f8b63abe2ebb5883814d537 SHA-1: 43af7f51ee0dc9b4dc5d96bbf87cb2decf0013f8 SHA-256: 72e98b91649099f8df87af971ccce2378f2c823a9ac9817f0fba926cf570a3f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other potentially disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The embedded URLs are likely used to redirect the user to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc7e3ca5823---35963938740.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://optimumnieruchomosci.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/nikofulinusivezawogow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788b561e17d---zinikemimajabija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axi-hohenstein.de/userfiles/file/61104351523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.salac.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/setas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://essuances.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sakuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioneducation.ru/userfiles/file/gerezanademafupavifijanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moiarchitekci.pl/pliki/file/6017224800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/826c856cf24cdaad465f8ccbf1d203e0/vujegelufeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oteaexpert.fr/cite_imgs/file/kavivupipelux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haverfordhigh77.com/clients/e/e7/e7c5a96ea35a64a1345a575153f12e7e/File/10080282407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/94747064673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rspon.pl/images/wyswig_images/file/zajekuzofapun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a810b72b17c40e94005bd07b1a34c7a/6735754702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e14b46d8aa5---23681402297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alasclub.gr/neuro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mimujubakifejase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulceoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/jalusadulojefufifed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c30ee8b1f---fakiwomurejefaxulirup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatminhtrading.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/70859941782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-22/20210822061025112297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f384427dd---99441919281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3038463639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210613232956605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/durafadufolafosodojawux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3480c0d43d71eaddd1851182e7e89e7/filim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=c+programming+language+standard+pdfPDF 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_off0000deb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6C7 17384 bytes
SHA-256: b4065f1f66d8686ae320815ddc9ae39f002efcd83dddac54230928b58f93a48d
font_02_sfnt_off0001239f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1239F 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 3b485ac65d2a6a34bd658b841fb02478bcd48316267784ee2d551397eb5d05f7