Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73006c9ec701690b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-26 10:59:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1965d09e13930db4375dbc6fbdaa80b1 SHA-1: 1ea67a2f5c888867ddbf346bce4ec7ac544a1744 SHA-256: 73006c9ec701690bc890edceed37952f2610896928000ab576b08f6702a83240
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs clearly point to a malicious link aggregation pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://sutphinsgermanshepherds.com/clients/21958/File/36604156138.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8de265fe1e---603452430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d769dd9d198---482572605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53f0ca8cbed9c286ef117db1633cc46e/60077440347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/9416485898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210708105814_289412033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nkn6uj5cqstaqsvp16f0kbi0f1/mezakenijodekuwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c43de8998---60213811212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zifu-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/kasejawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fbc7facd1cc43ace36337c3acdfdf37/36893455873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikacarpet.com/My_Project/Hamishe_bahar/ahar_img/files/51212463123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnegc0neq3ke8idh7gi6nsr176/kepofinelutogeral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/77276728598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3aa101b7ba---68288221098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30efadd2bc---sorerogasosidixotabure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/vupowemibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaneighbors.com/userimages/78182972463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/zanexekerijodoxitamubig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cb5d1f820e7851307f295f9f2eaf3de/59369898404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtarrytowndeli.com/uploads/files/91923404094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl/_ADRESuserfiles/file/vumibojapum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckrestaurantgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jumukeworifosukimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=present+perfect+continuous+tense+exercises+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_off0000eb59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB59 16964 bytes
SHA-256: 0c37c1c4931d697d5b4f4f1d0e0fb41d9c73c53adb53ad3323102afa7abc2a2f
font_01_sfnt_off00011722.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11722 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F39 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 2543f8318f279227db883116cb09b2f952de98bd29ef119a3fb6b722caf9795e