Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 700becfe1599253a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:36:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: de62d932922286fbc73d74198329e867 SHA-1: 52d45f82a43919f1de0503237762201b6d0f9a5d SHA-256: 700becfe1599253a15d79977d7c36a20216f37c8f6bfe1b7ae97a4251f007ecc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=como+hacer+manualidades+con+material+reciclado+para+el+hogar PDF link annotation
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/mamerage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/xubufuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecf34e2dbf2---vejawumukadonelafosozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tznjl.com/userfiles/files/4174924664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/xenuxika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--oy2b9bv81anouola.com/upload/file/202107061028165344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbce472b816a9705e2ffd5f24c9e5f0f/wawuluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eec157b529---befagedofazudilowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6cd97df7e---75940004514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanopena.cz/upload/file/15261621030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210627075030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/88354736376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70e3dc649090e34cf6ff5c30543cf671/fenepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-domodedovo.ru/upload_picture/file/xirexavuton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usssecuritate.ro/userfiles/file/59182488726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/sinawukeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dallard.fr/ressource/site-image/files/56495477730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/tolevulogifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/givawuxofipumosafam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612af6b6cec32---gepimatoxepakupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://przyklejki.pl/userfiles/doporizubekeguwivopetovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0315c208cf2f177cfbff002f516381c8/zimufuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612369fbc9ebc---vejezupisisogekuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109cc4146b00---divozogiremotevoloboboreg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/5970858476.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_off0000daa2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAA2 11092 bytes
SHA-256: c7b2563ef215d190d6d61c134e4a388f64a4b211f0cac3714646a2d763152af2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f417.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF417 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010c29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C29 18552 bytes
SHA-256: cd9672788d01c5dd868ddbe3d21798eeb10add9c99914b4033dff04a2a5bba87