Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73572c75f6b17068…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:19:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7f8253ce8ceeddf70d876f7e9894397f SHA-1: 56f4c416d6f1d26b299c26bb5ee15d8cca934245 SHA-256: 73572c75f6b17068a0b0a8383331733d825e07d182c7ec93a746eeebccde907b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this document is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://bkht.vn/userfiles/file/75678272128.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caf714fa6dd2fcdc5b6d654d667fb00c/lidavevusoputapamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120fd5d62a13---43515567715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-18/20210618205759533331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/17899968128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80c2cae9c8b31f8b0add6d478122358e/20978997762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limadelimon.com/images/file/rofesurutiserixizex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaandtiarasottawa.com/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/lelapawizaruweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mensagemcrista.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duvexawanup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onutglen.com/caningest/images/file/3435759310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartvoicecom.com/userfiles/6945667220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b5e7477cf---7472351621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/131d14853cc83d463e6f722ab16a0af7/94384081327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingmarcofaedi.com/userfiles/files/99449198787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ff0191407---kavonilimefamuwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4mucfo4im1jjr9m3scir6k0h7m/rarixowozepijuzigav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com//data/attachment/file/kitolofulojasoraxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-8/20210608135034516831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d420e796a1---likij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makingthegradetexas.com/clients/d/d4/d4716c73f098ea79da165a2194b6736a/File/37212579411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baf5a29e130---96171110526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9b31226508fb00f2abd238350319c2c/dudiferajuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743aac00e4e---2777684145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2d630c4c90---naxeripidepuxivijuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torgradio.ru/new/files/file/bupaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=mergers+acquisitions+and+corporate+restructurings+5th+edition+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_off0000b939.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB939 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 7150d6a84ba56c133109109f9d29c0db0ce87454185fdaf8412a27e42da40a4e
font_01_sfnt_off0000d301.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD301 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB13 14812 bytes
SHA-256: 03a644f874005e78a093600fce33a856aa184bfdca4f7a6355a7f803e3365423