Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72e9a8e47a9f3173…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 12:44:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 404b3baa4d41ad80ab01b80514dc9c82 SHA-1: 2feb4657ad4113e51d1c596c6dc2a4b03fe1ccab SHA-256: 72e9a8e47a9f31731868a68a1efbe74ac74a6a814c7030e2bda5348c9122dec6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO abuse. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded URLs point to a malicious document designed to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://thebrownbag.vn/upload/files/lobudelege.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/206767717608b0cb3bbff8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f72eeb645f---wubolomeruvulobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ca274a59b---57861088635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b27a34eb8c337b8c664ec25a5d02789b/bofaporavewopuloru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5jqekdk54kjd0bjgs2t31c53kt/dipobefid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioibaobicarton.com/Images_upload/files/4162307773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121a75b47984---73968656684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a18e391082e---vadipuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e44fe3089---68249373624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c20a5e5e5b3---7945210954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/17393114246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/946aea3eceaffe85dd547aebe1dcc912/gotibaduxumoxujemizus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/23315052741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1qjd.com/upload/files/2021-08-02-12-02-34-3IcJ9mQn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kristinanamaste.eu/files/xevudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.com/contents/files/82367139931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/soqi4qbltkpu408hipke6rhf4g/mujososefilagazanevam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3293b0c38---79484363284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85467ee0d7f815ceae042fb612acc983/zirebasewolepodaxogopos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtreurope.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63748302016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stillwaiting.org/userfiles/file/papure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090fad31daee---vafera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/mamusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611363eee74d8---sufixikadex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=leaders+are+born+not+made+debate+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_off0000dbf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBF0 10616 bytes
SHA-256: aa27612d910e7fef1f7947f0ba30e8f40301f24a8cfd107b3805a74c7ae9a74c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3F1 17216 bytes
SHA-256: 1063294f0edfa4339b1c9f4d3d7a31c1888ee5e90eca39a423952c1aab389419
font_02_sfnt_off000120ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1