Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 872c0f71eac62cfa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 19:48:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 357096c09c9010e8334d65c692e7dc34 SHA-1: ed1eff1c75728c425f8c1533b730c3ae17f15d58 SHA-256: 872c0f71eac62cfacaa5eb894c567b95f8802122c2f9b1f621f78d02b7ce62d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f36dc4583b46640cdf399d5dcd4cfd70/83047016042.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/fitovuravizepidadate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/zaroroji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archerelectricsupply.com/userfiles/file/77730637971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/musemujilufebibaxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0485dd465---59815056731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profipreklady.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42499940488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/niloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkagenap.com/contents//files/5949912202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae644f326e5---51711696800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/8455076573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universitecentrale.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/64930748200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad72dd0c6a11b6dea5f436d171f9b975/52163478614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98d24903d1de3663aae3e4f32364a790/85297719651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t4f92v34nfl1t0nte2cngqe1u4/nipatora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4394a2eb52---sibobetiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079dd54c0c03---63309257182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belhasasecurity.com/userfiles/file/dadarenipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c233447c0ca---1376571394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9jeve1mg4ch9kj0it1dt7j0qf/selajisonowefebuxupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/092f9218913e36988ec0606aa9657139/nomadibuvefopixew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d33c9969d6---71693771019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15889163.com/ckupload/files/biwepig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160747dfb84a68---14614719682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=congressional+job+requirements+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off000105fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105FB 11280 bytes
SHA-256: 49331b90ee2e440659f964292af898489bc0a67e32bde6c140b95df0a3c22258
font_01_sfnt_off00012003.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12003 16980 bytes
SHA-256: bcc42ef364413d4c850ec92fa82c9e4f142a5ed91ce21366c285592c057a2794
font_02_sfnt_off00014c20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C20 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1