Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 070ef515fa07f6e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-15 14:21:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 70e27cd92a2c934fc4d9a807d3f8ad95 SHA-1: 9d20407d8b6fc5aa64797879f7aa87bd6e1fd81a SHA-256: 070ef515fa07f6e676b32b8bc2e311947b91cd24e5fa216958ac96a300cdb691
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://sumnerclassof1976.com/clients/4/49/49b54eafcc86ae0c30eb104ab8b91c7c/File/8608593913.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://booknowrentalimo.ch/userfiles/files/vavitipaduxadumiwupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607697bed5d2b---15908311688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d40cfc6249---xelimiwulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5a0eb5f586---kuferagugodebudifuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermatologomiguelgallego.com/miguel/fck/file/zifiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e266a5c00---18569302832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dad187a03c9---84996154489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc0d96d3554---89735004905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/xisoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b93c9aabb5fcc0ed20932af9ecf604e0/gafebinevoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b57dac538d---dumetiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a81349100---36167189620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsbuffalo.com/uploads/files/61500122398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamcatcherltd.com/userfiles/file/sefobabib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2b-intelligence.it/uploads/file/90473021930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/mumesagivoregogasotepop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fishuntpesca.it/file/kumufuxorukolid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b52e3fe59e5850296850f2bed0ffb87c/mipigolulifotiluzuxadoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lignumweb.com/site/webroot/uploads/files/58876608069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19c0d05947e50930dea48ed3ef9ed9a4/85231066221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39585anlkfq5ssds9c1javnjf9/rufogusuxifokemuvuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14f27df891412214b5d3fbe0f717c338/46711427248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=subcortical+cyst+formationPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7ec77aaba25d1ac1e7bc07c701ee103/buvibixelexiledujig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c48c4d4c5d9b512d6e9cbd0804f1423e/63756041633.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_off0000e8b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000100c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100C8 10792 bytes
SHA-256: ff01148af1a51b607ca5062272537fd5e937d49d861f6d62cf5954f0e26de35c
font_02_sfnt_off0001199d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1199D 17280 bytes
SHA-256: 081a076e4f85c8c7f8e678b3a23147015f1a85e31c633f510ffa55fcfba73189