Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73fc3b91257e0358…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-07-18 23:45:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0654853b766c6f9f2ddc721ac447267f SHA-1: 7098fe4a3ccf23ae4e36652acf5e6123bc91577b SHA-256: 73fc3b91257e035884104c8800cbe44385a214197c94a2931dc2dc0f2842116f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://farmacieitaliane.com/documenti/file/bofijoka.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://papersacksfactory.ae/images/bulk_images/files/51707128206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sspvjd.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210709_4974ABABF12F9105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c4734f123941af8375c64feac3288dd/kigikatolalipepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e14505a8bb4429ff22dbb5464fca73ef/jazudemekazibedujujafefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asztalosweb.hu/userfiles/file/78250520105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file///16512631961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799f53deb79---bopujovovuxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608282ba22ccd---4948684200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/gelinawejabanekelukiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rinsacars.com/files/others/tikilijejabadazajimix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37432f9e72d61adc6720ab82ca12b389/97823174002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miwon.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/48739346070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusburbank.com/uploads/files/30031087748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmdplus.com/userfiles/files/20210616_180630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.org/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/vegorobonirefunozobupoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettogherardi.eu/userfiles/files/32749753324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/emidq4ugbfr4ctn1or63c7bua8/82112628742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmsorganica.com/userfiles/file/35829716129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c66260bbe2a75cb1063cd73b4660fe35/79889599925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d47998c3ca98ebda157c1608ea9ce9a1/ritopoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutergroup.de/userfiles/file/zobusimiwotukubesifodet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/burosef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95b7f4dab0283939347fd1743573ba79/finebilurex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kielcenoca.pl/files/file/topebonavegom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=letter+to+board+of+educationPDF 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_off0000eb74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB74 16636 bytes
SHA-256: 09164c2612c111c407f7d7e4e13692e56f360ba89e08d5e8a28cace38dd0abb9
font_01_sfnt_off0001166e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1166E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E85 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 50ebae0996f7f539e5abf0df0ecd6373e95bea89ddf7161c19f97f896fd46f8b