Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e72bb1f682f35b7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.1 KB Created: 2021-08-20 07:18:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 752afb87c901103802380f36fde95afe SHA-1: 72ecb881d17004ac2cbe5f20e572a234c52fca85 SHA-256: e72bb1f682f35b7ffc317d07862ccefd7449632b35c21315741f2fcff9a4c2fd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b81aaeadef3---29424072670.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://whsclass1968.com/clients/f/f8/f849445bb2fb8f42e7c863050dc1ba38/File/32548964081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/98270582877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/819fd7088166b718c13bf60743ef06e6/paxoxeraxuberarefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--49st2et51duvk.com/upload/files/95445281676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097582534681---95034526868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/dixisisadifen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1900ceece1---xivadozimidekif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6dbf8298c---54294768161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malabarmail.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62527676179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/987a5bfce2bde0636dd42bb4089078dd/73891202273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/46044104513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educationexplosion.com/clients/a/aa/aae59ec6301d25964842a0067e0ae100/File/xumoxurit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/dipewugokasetaligu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deaprogettazioni.it/userfiles/files/girazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessdevelopmentcenter.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/mubimufejipulekuradin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b37ad4017b---51482888232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://articolo17.it/siti//usr/foto/files/53345402036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6f8605db20---11643176328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608471bf6d5fe---33223909901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86ca3afc7f7f77d77e428941e2463c90/42688569435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607345c8165f6---15767348266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/daximipugoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+a+geologic+cross+section+in+arcgisPDF 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_off00016ce4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16CE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000184fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x184FB 10740 bytes
SHA-256: b200a4b5d98d11fe66a1fa3db9e9c72759262c02895c1601ef9deef5638d4f10
font_02_sfnt_off00019da7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19DA7 18128 bytes
SHA-256: a429532d9b6737ce10a2e794570558d56e2e043cbe01c384e1d293df1eda06de