Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 070ef0cf064b3230…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-05-06 17:10:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: dbe97611177427c5fda24c793f14871a SHA-1: 13719e492e6b69c256b43ce9220653399a356323 SHA-256: 070ef0cf064b3230af9e004dd45f94afbce3a70d7ccb97f226ad6fe6e0477869
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external files, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of 'purevpn cracked apk' in the document body and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent to trick users into downloading potentially harmful software. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/zipafatezalojawinuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/utrpvh1dqgsi38ubf8achl61dt/fifoferirololilasidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hdaho066b852qi9sek7t5gvkp0/88206849363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9df1bd6db7c670624bc22ff81771db8/mabuwesaxolanoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/29230033463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160935219b796f---9164139416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb4ec53d41---13247912125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79b5555fcf75e2012731dc6236274d28/wusatuvuzom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b02c1a73ce---xibuvimufebubed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/73255762275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d325no6ku2g1lqn4br6vnlcj2/bolovovofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.groupenahno.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j4985bmndilpab21um3n3g140u/35466267693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607edd2fce691---zakevosifekivovatuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608995d63212a---gabutarefawagivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b0822e4c4---88004113558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/74803146938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=purevpn+cracked+apkPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d27b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD27B 4980 bytes
SHA-256: adfa87c4e5837a7040006a64298dbeb25229c0b4f9aefc894de1de1f06383b55
font_01_sfnt_off0000e386.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE386 11444 bytes
SHA-256: 2a81e041803166f75b9ae3d7a2f0647e3e5a2b3b88359d101171c954ffb21c92