Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f72056b393ff1fdf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 11:45:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6aa54be850be5a9fe55416701d3581f7 SHA-1: bb50412b0468189421bb8fb2f2ae3bab47e9f197 SHA-256: f72056b393ff1fdf6061b7e9fa950a22a37530f9d88adda69447b697426050cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified by heuristics as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data, but the presence of multiple compromised upload URLs is a strong indicator of a malicious campaign.

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://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161316ad163782---37019517061.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/15733964833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21436682dc637a7c276dea5679ecdbda/56805465105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddms.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210702132926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verdantnorwich.com/clients/3/30/306756bb587dffcd11ca74610d845a16/File/vasegufon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellar-toys.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/moduvadusixoluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/namawozobadadures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusromeo.fr/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/87029453295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210623044353967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/67038908985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/bewurumosef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/8503202200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbcbf625147---fapukajolinepawavux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.com/contents//files/xozarevexevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansing.nl/userfiles/file/kefamijoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fl3ed72g5opha268pdmel1q4ud/79511141525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chamdure.com/DATA/files/59818835254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af6edf8ef20---sajanaduwixiviloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b762ae87a4---30384345979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pemaboutiquehotel.com/assets/userfiles/files/79068383782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paddockj.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/60810196981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myvideoclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/21418729124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c35643ccef---70918416588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607219f8e35d4---85610687922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=deep+drawing+calculations+pdfPDF 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_off0000d9af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9AF 10980 bytes
SHA-256: e5ddd6ce00bc66157adf7734f194f5e512c50176b8d5b8e7b5d6c977e9c8b1c5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f32a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF32A 18048 bytes
SHA-256: 863a187cb7e0d4326457afa87162186298af7df0c4043ad6145cbe43688e9be2
font_02_sfnt_off0001224d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1224D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1