Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f72c5508d7278414…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 03:57:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 769bbd45765b04b8fa8a5b79f1a80158 SHA-1: 466555b1ccba68e51e34757293c10f07a3f3890d SHA-256: f72c5508d72784144b015f57ba1f8c04e3c6941f652562427a42f6adc5ff8171
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's part of a link farm or phishing campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware distribution or phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c75718087b---96069287173.pdf
    • http://cochemical.com/upload/files/14819472305.pdf
    • http://nemochem.cn/upload/files/51197863993.pdf
    • http://twinmd.ru/userfiles/file/lotigiruraburokexovisik.pdf
    • http://abbeytraining.net/userfiles/file/taduvovobarivesuro.pdf
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/tuneles.pdf
    • http://universalthailand.com/images/uploads/ckfinder/files/tuvarafas.pdf
    • http://sparan-art.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/finapazuvosofepanekifon.pdf
    • http://lightningriskassessment.com/ci/userfiles/files/25220141556.pdf
    • http://grupafurman.pl/!mag2011/userfiles/file/40887743205.pdf
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/5733734308.pdf
    • http://xn----7sbbgprpk7biiq.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85231660956.pdf
    • http://jandebruijn.com/uploadimages/files/71903698242.pdf
    • http://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/45134815484.pdf
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/towuvazelibetig.pdf
    • https://thefertilizergranulators.com/d/files/zojupanewojujafaz.pdf
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/kipowalifetubelawos.pdf
    • https://dveropolis.ru/upload_picture/tavotonifobosaligenopu.pdf
    • http://balcimimarlik.com/resimler/files/junubalajenimeruruvi.pdf
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130628410b17---bupiwabe.pdf
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f9696293c---ladilalilapigiwedupanewu.pdf
    • https://olympicwroclaw.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/10801810057.pdf
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614756d3126d5---8934948397.pdf
    • https://adesso-moosburg.de/images/file/62140763940.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=let%27s+do+it+1982+watch+free+online
    • 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_off0000d852.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD852 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f064.bin
fedcfc3f01896dcf69cec7e6087d5209029603ab804a2acefd205128a6e45d0e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF064 17988 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011ebc.bin
abe7db076b1f3ffc7c42bc2e22a60eb2b5e09737b7dc435c621d978b670fd5be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EBC 11200 bytes