Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d72fdfe7731cff7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 18:42:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 04c2124a3e7465352bda121ad7db9448 SHA-1: fe7bd964f7bdcfbf02b42fa808c73dc5b8062243 SHA-256: d72fdfe7731cff7d91c59acc17aba2f770b2aee3e7916643da39b9ad57ef5324
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external, potentially malicious sites through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ddba5d770f---21790071461.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/2021061407171781870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d3621527d8---37690399993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607efd676d20f---tesufaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadgatecapital.com/userfiles/file/73569839815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/bepaxeruliruzoreku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/dudigamiwifilelino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/28727061971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081401bc42d5---xerimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609846048bc2f---13449615157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/39724357340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/651d39e1c8dcc838c076d22bbb30c6db/81843491275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///13919050245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86993d94f4e177cd4078a418be382427/kisepemefolewitebego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ccbed4960---keputupapused.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbmotorbrokers.com/userfiles/file/24632764676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad66c396afa0f4a44cef90da62b4f667/80063260932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/wiresemarinoxiketenofasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://preprodpcb.com/userfiles/files/gedumasonunawisagage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpn1971.org/clients/a/a2/a25689677492d603657f1241a2a69ea8/File/66236457236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glina-master.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuperan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d49fc90f66e---nekewun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=praise+you+in+advancePDF 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_off0000b631.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB631 15908 bytes
SHA-256: fb7265a304e09e72695aaeb1093e831dc1c901e9bd488f927feb95175db656b1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f783.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF783 10500 bytes
SHA-256: febc5fde388f8097d1f8a5780f4232600b34af7ac83c3b027f0c85ef66c6efab