Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72f11a3407fbf59a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-07-07 17:31:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1634ff8d34adaedb842c9f0134fcc8f2 SHA-1: 1d897660c363fccdbc988fee60e23294e4196ff9 SHA-256: 72f11a3407fbf59a422c505b9a1fa9c9a58146615f86a209bea9017b126c8852
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094926841437---41462267469.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d854301162a574fae34c000dd89b89f/58857070907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campfirewtx.org/userfiles/file/latosofegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://footstepfloor.com/upfiles/files/gumeridodoviligusanev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/52785168543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.id/userfiles/file/67913719244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7615414416b5d019b669a1adc03fa598/38423395745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608235ccd78eb---64945718745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ddfaea7b4---kitivirixerosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/156b07ecd57f02059f42cabfe2b84e3c/62249288695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa9dae0a41f2b297f1e0ece0fbc0c832/40284074937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmatik.com/uploads/file/15652288826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioidahoacuong.com/uploads/image/files/tepari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cea9ab099a---nuzikofazaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd95a8b9747---lebumiwaxoxezexupigefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872df587eb3---vozanojov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8ccf1bd4f1aeed8524588722b0278a8/rikike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8fb797a53---40125846432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba0d586dc2---57880523232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiskreunion.com/clients/b/b4/b417c2091670ce0b0d78f4b231aea02c/File/rosuxosokogawepojagavew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9f5b0a303---71436802446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/mikotavofusevodawelanuwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mamafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210602184521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=the+way+of+the+bowPDF 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_off0000c8f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8F6 16796 bytes
SHA-256: ee3cec27c43dfde0a5ab6e19fd64445b4062e0922ed73a34684ea24696e6ea5f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B9 10104 bytes
SHA-256: 60c00b4bbf8330f3f1256b8ae9fea786bdbb7683e19fec0716a2d681160b43f2
font_02_sfnt_off00010b85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1