Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1070bb07cfeab416…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:28:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0640a4c2c7fdc3872225708f71f21969 SHA-1: 497b18c30e66ee58ed2fd76b09c11bb831d50f38 SHA-256: 1070bb07cfeab416bbbefac67626ada770420030af60a8af35106daa4a6365d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a phishing lure or a distribution point for further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=photographic+atlas+for+microbiology+lab+pdf
    • http://saxons99.com/clients/5/5f/5faa49e4155ddd0d4faf97b0d7aa3dde/File/47009810206.pdf
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071acea671b1---kugefukadevupaxot.pdf
    • https://helicopterleasingservices.com/userfiles/files/13640533208.pdf
    • http://be1971.com/clients/a/a1/a19be2fc4cf8b198b52f296748481ce5/File/punavabemimoninapelufot.pdf
    • http://ambvetbrashersclavoghisu.eu/userfiles/files/96674208606.pdf
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cebb7e1bfd---kitopag.pdf
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uf1o0e33amnvol4bpd8537poto/25351630201.pdf
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9p6u9hb0qf50mju5sajh7ntqs3/nulojinavivukarax.pdf
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fb549f2564---86039252377.pdf
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e33fe214dd7a91900dcfc181a77ff42/wovulumeguwi.pdf
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d99d5658b---65397781495.pdf
    • https://cbdc.co/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61943137281.pdf
    • http://tindangnhadat.vn/upload/files/75740212900.pdf
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087dd2725536---denon.pdf
    • https://blindnow.com/userfiles/file/72472848602.pdf
    • http://thesnowmanicecream.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77057682531.pdf
    • http://ip-golubev.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7469945635.pdf
    • http://cloverdiamond.com/file/67120121777.pdf
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17baa570cd63073460054b0faa3e4901/kavel.pdf
    • http://maginsaatmetal.com/resimlerfiles/54725430809.pdf
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab191ee078---pitutigovika.pdf
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/tovoranemosivuka.pdf
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/xavusewu.pdf
    • 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_off0000c4b9.bin
1fba5c6f2a5c4cb27e9c686174d8216e12391c409299cfe1d5db0d81e6efc118
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4B9 18024 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f252.bin
37116ea23853ff60db36af15ef9a313f1d4ced80be1f04fec9bedf536471b273
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF252 11084 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010bce.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BCE 16792 bytes