Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ca70347ddbf610b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.5 KB Created: 2021-07-24 08:06:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 78e593109fa2437113fc2e2423e367f6 SHA-1: 3a83252844ca6ee9644c0c948b35fdff659a455d SHA-256: 4ca70347ddbf610b0f18b314d21e781dff3f40c4012836ac4a4f706943ff1098
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's part of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs are sufficient to infer a malicious link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://vestol.bg/files/file/18227906630.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kidsjeodo.com/images/files/sililugineluduruwibes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c328d8baa2f325be480d32463e6abe9/44000428952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3db9eecbb---18874518693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e22a01028c0---95701499009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavbyhes.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5628826743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba0b2c1fc5---39103195905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093fc44ceb66---556431255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f079ece5e84192b9fae9ade103aaafd/xizogupipiwupoloboxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condicionamentofisico.com/arquivos/file/mibabelorifepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatishev.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ketijusadopuwomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chris-arnold.com/userfiles/file/xabagogipuzagez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d4e8c4100---19709015670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093ca3414748---79948920787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/buverixuxizegofebeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b68ada7a634---jogimuvevagoxogikubeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interstroy96.ru/uploads/files/5150006958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b79f74cefa2---59758362786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trickapotisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xekurusam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/2238853170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719a868deca---nomiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/11165017913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a347ee915a2---13052293342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb7c8310288---vinomupegawarunodova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34baf452dba847fc6f6394fa98f1a360/mirepuvoziwagif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=diccionario+etimol%C3%B3gico+real+academia+espa%C3%B1ola+pdfPDF 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://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_off000113c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012bd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BD8 19560 bytes
SHA-256: 3cf8e317bda5c6b8a690f98c79ea7de20fcdb46f22e81a8df85df48313a7a4dd
font_02_sfnt_off00015de0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DE0 11308 bytes
SHA-256: 2b7a376d3272c60ec661dfd6c1692614310f6d7f0051bdfbc773cb39fde0c9b3