Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da72f5fcc0477264…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 00:56:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 306473b5ba24e42fb2b6083a9d447f88 SHA-1: e058155e90f3ccd3b6269029d2a026659a7085dc SHA-256: da72f5fcc04772645edf35064263e53b0f870d88fbd3e1e6c710a9b1e86f4d4e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs confirm a link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

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://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763bda6041c---silugosoxuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/16488509057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/55051347653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960fa9270aa---81637748083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869d6043047---96843318959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/zuwasesonesogazubaranop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/rolenepes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83221c50dbe7cced9947851de4b58088/95816430389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreams.cz/files/73878808696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/bapes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1319034cd6bc1e657e0e1cf34c3662ee/77758380392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/pifipuputidad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077de26e6e32---57772429132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/wofisasixekos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/suxejizet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1imh6vpc69qruu7p4ce01jksb4/13802364425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a67948aabd5---naranegivijemibatoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/mabarabedapenalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lynxitservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91660830213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbb9a66c29044f05a7210b5e6634c8c0/tixadenonupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2cfc8b8fb07664709c75022cf79814b/83244621291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/73027725283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abbfed537bb---vebuxekepoxuvufazisaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b1a98a92d---risowevosotavol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01c01bc51361c1cd22a57010d97c65d7/77878083449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=rip+wishes+to+a+friendPDF 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_off000126c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126C7 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 7e6e1d53dbadb772b2410005d3566a0f30f56eeec577c78da21f6a9990b450aa
font_01_sfnt_off00013f4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F4B 18572 bytes
SHA-256: 96f8776571c417afff12b2a4f29c2bb50c7bc0b2cac4249390942e7f70244fc6
font_02_sfnt_off00016e94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1