Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 700ceb03221364ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-07-09 17:15:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d3ae41d4a6c23b385d9db3ff10532da5 SHA-1: 78fb1618b83b75fa7379ec0ee982103891614166 SHA-256: 700ceb03221364ac9258507ca4ade43f4aba89cd444fed63fe5b92b937b66156
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. These links form a link farm, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, consistent with a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f319e234a65290f9c5e86c76449dabf/87711088870.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://patrick-jardinage.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43896448329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ssnpuf1uu45if0kk7g6roduv84/43025612521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e63ed819de949672d72c8410740a34b/vilakesizoveniliminina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvpartners.be/images/uploadedimages/file/tedinumiguvagep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210511053135745646368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/35004059028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b02a964cb8f9a8854a12bd42ae1d7487/vobavevibawipax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160967fd84b5bb---14592977965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megaprestige.ru/uploads/files/80288239638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b495f4888f7---nokaxipirozalejosoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4376f72816---23257735785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608395b353598---xemexug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamaconsultores.cl/upload/file/tawowegowakom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/22737923550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c13d4b529b8---70126332254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/zoxovakorapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b74f652b5e---giwotaxebidemijises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/53632644452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkirbilaw.com/userfiles/files/569385936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cae0bdb8e5b01909c6da6e5f9eaa361c/80809922159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f34c6bccd7---88978140071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68c9c910126888004a55328d42fc88d3/34866360357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxesystem.site/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10496229614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=thanking+and+apologizingPDF 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_off0000e7a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB2 16968 bytes
SHA-256: 8c40bde5d9a1b847f8114a618c604613ae9a97c514e2c987b61da575d8fd3938
font_02_sfnt_off00012b7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B7F 10288 bytes
SHA-256: 64e98485081353e65b3b463a5565b5e62fc4e820f5a6977db67c2556aa386af9