Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 270f12db4a7559c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 20:51:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b0b04db35ff99f1072d7edfd6565dc11 SHA-1: 2c04a67dfc9c5cc36ddffd7c531451e6a60b6e97 SHA-256: 270f12db4a7559c274122b159bb99d75c7dd402e0f722ce9fa55ad34297bb7ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF that contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV heuristic strongly indicate maliciousness, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, potentially for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=another+word+for+internal+conflict
    • https://srmhomes.com/images/bulk_images/files/56425874868.pdf
    • https://efsanepin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/4864325926.pdf
    • http://okfilm.kr/userData/board/file/52221157621.pdf
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af7a1c2b0e2---kevoveniwo.pdf
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/jisesufubikowu.pdf
    • https://nadamasristorante.it/file/nejogaxaneneto.pdf
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/pimololipipoxik.pdf
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a34291f98bce898b93b0ad2c253a887a/71562136945.pdf
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2e268a247917a0adfcf8696e141edb0/79911546517.pdf
    • http://radio6deenero.com/uploaded/files/vilisazofanafu.pdf
    • https://akita-inu.lv/www/files/files/kuwuwesisegelav.pdf
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a240d6603---23959796510.pdf
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d890d51d6dc---laviwuvolixanaxalugumem.pdf
    • http://stylekd.ru/files/89468972792.pdf
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a211e56c8e9---18716482548.pdf
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c74c9d160a9f6284a5d58a7a64909fcd/ponafaxometiwokodalel.pdf
    • https://dansobentre.net/uploads/file/47531584824.pdf
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a2a95729cd9904fb3f68188a163c7a2/69759984861.pdf
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42c9bu7hvrvog7uk3vuafcf1ne/45702813546.pdf
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49cc250b72ebc58cea0e66d356f0eca5/vasibedakovit.pdf
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ou5jgmv7uin614mli8liu8qa91/foreritikolitutuzofoxu.pdf
    • https://ecoretras.com/file/muxibamuraku.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_off0000feaf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEAF 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000116c1.bin
7a11bc1d3934b21213354ada1e1472e60356950d16c8e3da83f1a28dd22b225a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116C1 18152 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014610.bin
c923751a9f10662941f7bd7a38b8945c949fc32488dd24d63db449f862ef1657
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14610 10472 bytes