Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f072ef3c046ed076…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:13:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1a545607df56d6087482e2325db08aff SHA-1: 3535ccf3a6763b8a639b27a9d7dd41b2bead876e SHA-256: f072ef3c046ed07655174886425e21401f1ee4b65e3510b55e3d5b81fdbd68c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting other PDF files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hcva81353rt434ejnj9gmot10b/kikinexavebofukorumakej.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/kabiruwaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d860638db96---wopekidigaparedof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biorenta.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13669609941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af3512556606515660bc5d84022e9cf9/zopezabekaboke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607768ce5db0b---bomemum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5d3098c101---26969178780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matfplayer.com/calisma2/files/uploads/tunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamasia.net/upload/files/busenenalejatadizotado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igruppe.no/ckfinder/userfiles//files/92589406609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/32922221555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smcertificationservices.com/userfiles/files/15902141557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00ba4fd9914f6c00d59dc879d8ce451e/ledanit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosvag.ru/img/lib/file/38571860316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1d23209ece---kiberepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64812150482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orig-shop-gsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bibibepadeliveruluxasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zofijegobujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/596a43697c959554085373f36b7af1ce/64656973595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palenice.net/obrazky_clanky/file/jinusofojirozaxofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuketdriveschool.com/userfiles/file/tozoxavogojapotesix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbae99fcfa8b29449322476bf3547090/batitelewigusigigedijev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e2dd64030f05ca17c4c9fea83ef4995/31902739088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36207708becea7fd71e4cb32796cbef6/23644768270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/vozomuxoferoxorobonitop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=balada+de+amor+ao+vento+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000dd88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f59f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59F 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 5fd65c647a17f50a22023675caf04529af5dba14d7b6c091c25905af8a36b749
font_02_sfnt_off00010dde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DDE 17460 bytes
SHA-256: 25309f9e1128800a639518f94445e073804edad44319d97fff413d3979725588