Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb72857d3d50eb7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 03:16:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 72278cb04a921d437b02c2d4305c750d SHA-1: 72be45c2c703f7635bc428c3ce32a48835bb4c76 SHA-256: fb72857d3d50eb7e592d83e7c3d945c0b5407ce5aa1c30cd20f46520a7ce1d0b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting points to a campaign aiming to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=japanese+name+suffixes PDF link annotation
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/midogabijib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/fesiwemewenozibidilisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a55464c42---81260035727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160737653e8888---nubuduwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607238173cdde---66614027603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/njoiuh3g3s2355934mq8mgb9t1/dosaguzamix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79c6ea92db6c541652ca54c19a81f8eb/kibosixovolulabinafumeved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/45301231906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariailmarzocco.it/userfiles/files/48115046121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rl0pud2jtd0cgt92idnt5nhsnc/ridurilupovesurig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a41bc73415b87a14813703e4b7abb5d7/wogujaxokedebugosujemowif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moonlightmontessori.com/upload/files/86930525105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fu9alnlig7no9b4nd1pcvo36k1/94089061351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4f86c5a080c3db306b1a23f6b6e8d50/28308940245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4df13076f---fifezozivokukajag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf2e5ce5ead---vatakujarozovewasowebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagliodeimille.it/userfiles/files/45413839303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607666585da73---puzewusefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e5a4d59f0---valotutoliwugogumokagabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cd98fcc18e8cd83ac24782643198288/kinudanedeboxipojaberofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorce-difficile.fr/userfiles/file/tivoparuxipajuliwetube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000edc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC4 10348 bytes
SHA-256: f8af9ccf5db8fdda40fe867e95b2c71f06261e4a6386c2cc449b50be745983fb
font_01_sfnt_off0001051a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1051A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D2C 17352 bytes
SHA-256: 8c263fabb0cad533f0603c695a1b29d8a6611a66399982dd733c00eb1968b58b