Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0703fb56b9ff7146…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:23:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 446ee2867f12564ba119b4a8b43ae2af SHA-1: 92000ed9befca7e06ea4d98d18817fb143bf3878 SHA-256: 0703fb56b9ff714642a8b4802244dc11f51aff30f852864230b69b42d10c22cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7e223260ef---35782057955.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://crownprolaw.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/99374117083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolinakrzeptowa.pl/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31793921379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caminodesantiagoenmoto.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/kivolibegijerepifof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teenmag.cz/userfiles/file/xegizeroved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huthamcauquanggiap.com/upload/files/41958965201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamaskitchenorder.com/uploads/files/zovinada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidlbrooks.com/clients/868292/File/bitenekazawixakuwigedar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inphuduong.vn/upload/files/gifurotawab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domosystem.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bavosigenow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d19508a474---mosazexukep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/vamojunisunejeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/bogikobumer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d74b31570a64c29450c76875c47135d/moxunatevekutibobaraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gwardiajuvenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/fapagibefuvanuduvem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarentcar.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210702_C7729A614A425FC0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s2i2ds5lsp1lnmgid2dd7djipc/lanikozagorisimabebuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karinameal.com/imgdish/files/20270344610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alperbehang.nl/userfiles/file/78993193924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a96c762df3f---49648896546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/33264727583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/84868085002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/fapaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adilaltinsoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806d644bd9c---15904685201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=andrews+dermatology+13th+edition+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000d15b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD15B 11352 bytes
SHA-256: c35748c968791548573bbae5778eb96c5d73005dc563d29e19e8d3a829f5f83a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD2 17964 bytes
SHA-256: 9d9811dc85d9576e4d3f1a7b192719987e60714a4094d0a80b7deb1b77ed16af
font_02_sfnt_off00011b16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B16 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1