PDF malware analysis — malicious · ea72ffd04da01ff3

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-12 19:46:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24

MD5: 742d1b2eb8ef797a37c2daab52e18e9d SHA-1: 17a8f5d514dc5de83796a784317c83031d4f300c SHA-256: ea72ffd04da01ff3e58dcd03e9217fe04ef400a33cd6f375e89c9aedb12a0fe5

156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://topstec.com/d/files/40467393856.pdf In PDF document text
- http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/8154115281.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4pj0mh6c6jktg9l33qlv27jr7h/55673163276.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://appextskihjthj.handysociality.com/upload/files/samazativizemuguli.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://nbcmedia.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27609701415.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://meghdoothsuzuki.com/uploads/10975806117.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://agencement-menuiserie-var.fr/stockages/files/kibadebaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://eko-uklid.com/files/file/zatimuselugasusa.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://mrs-edu.com/sribati/editor/uploadfiles/51074394798.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://megamento.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/68370993954.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/rebid.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://dpnovelty.com/upload/files/bajarejimenosulaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://rootbeadmill.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-12/20210912202540627952.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://www.rannatennis.ee/data/upfiles/files/xuvukodanojidudo.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/userfiles/file/26161990451.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuraxogome.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://nguyenxuanhuong.com/upload/files/nowibapiladujezekikurapu.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q5uecpd63f2mbfhll7obv4avt4/tozasarov.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdcebffcc9e0f9054996edc87d0436a7/70093490328.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e17134a0649f645d6a3580f6b82fe5e2/jarogufodal.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://rotarycochinharbour.org/ci/userfiles/files/simaxomar.pdfIn PDF document text
- http://bindashnews.com/userfiles/file/93279611968.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://rdsdealers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/galesekodepid.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://edex.co/userfiles/files/89403044649.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://contemporaryteas.in/admin/uploads/file/dumerejerikatamujuvagaz.pdfIn PDF document text
- https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=samsung+galaxy+core+2+stock+romPDF 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000e536.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE536	16792 bytes
SHA-256: `9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1`
`font_01_sfnt_off0000fd48.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD48	17580 bytes
SHA-256: `c85eb3fb46311815ea3daf66c6c252e0e54a3c6bd30dff0b212ea0f622ae02a7`
`font_02_sfnt_off00012b27.bin`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B27	11084 bytes
SHA-256: `63dc24b5af137f6a887fcccabd91eb3147e7abe886a7f9fc2ff34d02cd7bdf3f`

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