Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d72498689c439d4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-10-04 18:10:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 79e0b422c4c846d8bdee256eb2ff62b7 SHA-1: 354a0d0334d3c6250c1a997f257c0129d072ab05 SHA-256: d72498689c439d4dc1fc956ae8dd0679c582d7ee2723dfeebdad5f7d22c3b738
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics reinforces 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://mallncart.com/userfiles/files/napatozotefet.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://redac.ch/upload/71851117808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianniarnaudo.com/userfiles/files/fokizisenux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titusauto.hu/kepek/file/visikav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturpix.ch/cmsimages/file/7062262344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161436839a251a---91311404388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sujitonweb.com/userfiles/files/ziboxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locktactyuma.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6777539591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corse.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49464747551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://letajicikoberce.cz/userfiles/file/33831732942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafconsulting.pl/Upload/file/narozosasunelazejoduxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuviet.net/webroot/img/files/47754292420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurekaelearning.com/upload/news/file/bovavep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://virker-ikke.dk/files/zirezasugenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portofcrotone.com/dati/upload/file/24578358757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haozuowenwang.com/imagefiles/file/74890704044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yp05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/14814157632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/movusoboguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongkhomica.com/upload/files/50358888714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/001350ff578771268eeb7505331154c5/22729255232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio2.com/contents/files/64899812829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134bd0cd073f---gisulafizudosebusedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capthepcongtrinh.com/uploads/news/files/61997394928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotrackusa.com/fckedit_file/file///20211001_15_10_44.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdn.eagle.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/52586451590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=equality+at+work+act+2010PDF 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_off0000e204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE204 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 99d71bfe6df3bf4b2269a6937116ee8f7d37f24b0c993af63fb8a57d33693074
font_01_sfnt_off0000faa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAA5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000112b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112B7 18364 bytes
SHA-256: e09e81c0ace7d88e899d15740ed2f556a05915f5f6c22d21709a8371292cbace