Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f72be7b967af9443…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:50:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1b5679318209f5ab87175d34d7d45b06 SHA-1: babd6d4e07b4f894b467e616f8007d36f397d62c SHA-256: f72be7b967af94435afcfe58d2d79470efcf3e1acda0fc918140935ad11f84de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary function appears to be acting as a link farm, likely to distribute phishing content or malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/rolarenanajevuvi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7o2qkmasaidc1n9uv1k6r8pin1/vanek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indolabtek.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/74278520041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/renometetaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/fewunukekuwojil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608abf9d7f535---7666452166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/29137905581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609858d67eb30---21439336391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/zugadefigopibovurilikem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/10568273702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uufr3ntclr5fpjaktfnjcqhhaa/remixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9jamail.com/userfiles/file/2745450805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balarampurblock.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dovuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e32cad286e691658fd0c23a3d9e0dade/68725993702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mttrasportisrl.it/dati/upload/file/rafopowelegemivob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://produktybhp.pl/pliki_user/File/nemetawidogodizoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/gilemiledipiris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9493ab7a3---9076822126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawyerupsmart.com/tempimg/file/murimonidawimodoribigoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/texazowupadejopod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/42665124165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tyrtaios.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39262259593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e6f0cfe9e---45024899288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/769a0c0d632259df079680f84c9c51e0/63630198340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=combinatorics+and+probability+practice+problems+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_off0000e968.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE968 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 7254cea2abd1396fd55ae4a52e8fa8339347dc6a86e1916fb27ed378f4eb3591
font_01_sfnt_off000102fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102FE 19508 bytes
SHA-256: 910341e6b05c232e34f1f63caf4d1a54e656dc6f19fa258d6bf1bbe2e4eb299e
font_02_sfnt_off00013511.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13511 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1