Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f72a0ca2ad58f9fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-28 05:03:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c7aef0cb057c0a359b4fc38b72a4dbea SHA-1: 03a2b35163e10a1f69e4b2b58f8650e396804675 SHA-256: f72a0ca2ad58f9fe728c9446b4bcb50c53e13a34064bf26855bea879abda4a6a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the heuristic firings point towards a malicious PDF designed to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+view+non+mobile+sites+on+android
    • http://ume.civilkozpont.hu/uploads/file/40615125253.pdf
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/gobujokakajikox.pdf
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fcdf9a2b63---wowegav.pdf
    • https://vegan-eshop.cz/data/file/87555181935.pdf
    • https://pvesc.vn/uploaded/file/wetavujifu.pdf
    • https://nakatarikaszel.pl/app/webroot/userfiles/file/28557358720.pdf
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d45304ce75---kesojasaxatuve.pdf
    • https://exam10.menapoint.com/app/webroot/upload/files/47726801858.pdf
    • http://alwaditrading.com/userfiles/files/31347141693.pdf
    • http://rutka.pl/media/upload/files/c9521d95e9c301e373aa897a4434429d.pdf
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161493f593a5a1---12810282711.pdf
    • https://jdrum-music.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/83606867613.pdf
    • https://glamweddingdesign.com/userfiles/file/verikerapul.pdf
    • http://cgmorenanews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/velinexugiwodoxujapux.pdf
    • http://bbbo.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/dowupa.pdf
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/winufomuz.pdf
    • http://crestviewshopping.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/jasijubaderusani.pdf
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/91532594680.pdf
    • http://sangiorgioautoservizi.com/userfiles/files/kelalifafudilekawewovaji.pdf
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22oppn4l5lm6q1lipteet440u1/nikurubanopemox.pdf
    • https://ip-kamera-rendszer.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vigetun.pdf
    • https://bestrecycledautoparts.net/images_i/file/wozemitadobibapitut.pdf
    • http://onestep-tokyo.com/userfiles/file/14785863255.pdf
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8kf65fit1ocrm7ltijcv7vkq94/dokijada.pdf
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/tukoriguveset.pdf
    • http://vps73.juicy-group.com/editor_upload_image/file/14384341953.pdf
    • http://abwgulfport.com/uploads/files/xezezeboteji.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_off0000c77d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC77D 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000df8f.bin
b387693b47f10f49ac325202642481977a963562eeebaf30b8a21412799f5f35
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF8F 19196 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001118f.bin
f3227008191c573520f9a7b247fb9124561e0c88be1376689b5a5a80ca4ddf1e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1118F 10692 bytes