Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b70e200ad69a510…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-13 23:38:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b2254e5b126762ca1795faafb08ffa80 SHA-1: 8da39dae8c5ca0bcd7bed37000dd8aa7a27ac5f6 SHA-256: 1b70e200ad69a51036fe36e908a3e77929bf8486e212dac1696d253878cd9cb3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier score of 0.995 further indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the overall structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing campaigns aiming to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=performance+appraisal+review+phrases
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/67524946183.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae2038370c0---71247060793.pdf
    • http://digivideos.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76366963531.pdf
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd1006048e4---52529814811.pdf
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb04b28419---17272064187.pdf
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8d27e5b36b---53630269021.pdf
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da8aa2c149---36556656044.pdf
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4hi4cufc9d78r2v2h7bcss711/6248072745.pdf
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a91318287---nudorusiga.pdf
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f06791319c1dd954c023169a89c9efd/difoxupepunovedimox.pdf
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4n8im8mjhnet97k6o77tffmoe1/pezipogiketenot.pdf
    • http://songhandiban.com/uploadfile/file/2021070708495273499.pdf
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4lqjc3r8tjn8vcnakr494inm13/vezoritifupodasa.pdf
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/ruzididedajanurelusixikab.pdf
    • http://wghsclassof69reunion.com/clients/b/b3/b33699c65747f61a54cd06c2fab73d22/File/wonikeseniji.pdf
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b938ed8da51845e60a15ac6f2948760/suviz.pdf
    • https://zabulgaria.org/userfiles/file/80263951068.pdf
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b805bh6qnj5vstgunip5ptadfm/21663307628.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7fa18f00cb---74220881729.pdf
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ffc5e7b1d8fbc00dedc429b0072dd97/bipiboninutoselu.pdf
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c42hm8ddfhg34so1d6k2r2389g/jodojabitesavexonol.pdf
    • https://vinacomvietnam.vn/uploads/news_file/zetaxumolito.pdf
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17306a97c2ed48d1cd93fcf4d8f65617/godelax.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_off0000ef47.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF47 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010759.bin
b2a4ee10ae2dced7e7ef2324c720a7962dc9ac27aed34a62ca6acf0d993d0233
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10759 16860 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013306.bin
a31a1c2075a86bfdfb3cc33815fa71d195377bfd555b04fbbe007e336d728853
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13306 10800 bytes