Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f72268e1af2c4887…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 23:27:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 21f1c1e028fe2b3f6265ae9b12a7d712 SHA-1: 4e72c7e17aab4d28a8d1b168692e7d37f7d696b0 SHA-256: f72268e1af2c48872c96c93f87f551770eabab510b641406512710d677588b8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to lure users into clicking malicious links. The heuristic firings confirm the presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting, supporting the phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+logo+quiz+answers+level+1
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ee821303b---99536066510.pdf
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8149633107dcee22321198deec2b97d/kafejixatu.pdf
    • http://frankslawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ziremusilu.pdf
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b793e12a01---logutivi.pdf
    • http://soluzionebenessere.eu/userfiles/files/989814320.pdf
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076271651470---digetipup.pdf
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/15259076541.pdf
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4rk4cpoacptrbunso7s3uj8rv6/wisomuzivajosofivovumid.pdf
    • http://jp-cable.com/d/files/fojir.pdf
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l3gg5atc4425l5ra363845ej11/12197916125.pdf
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e3ef1ba41---21316292395.pdf
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608849e020fb2---gulun.pdf
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cd5458429f---86451907493.pdf
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c629760e783---silixegazik.pdf
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f0f9513199---40311680662.pdf
    • http://intestinalfortitude.org/clients/0/0c/0cf504f131cb0201443a7bd449519f4a/File/pewig.pdf
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d334a6df3e5e4c951f5c81f074a4a1f/rozeludafarobired.pdf
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6781bf2ad8d02cddaa840a47be56ec33/54302775416.pdf
    • https://langestrand.se/anvandarbilder/204/files/serozaduna.pdf
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607022b809866---97915905757.pdf
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/rubatisunu.pdf
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/tuwepukerekipinosajokuzi.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d602.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD602 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee14.bin
f093407eb90c9d9b0fc3cb419441ce625bfa6bb552fe367c29e3ee1883624791
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE14 16340 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001184b.bin
e7e2e0548c2a17a727abbffcc80d1ab59f51a2e7a98c85d48b6ce13a73dd86c4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1184B 10816 bytes