Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 700d85f1fd9a2e3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-08-05 23:16:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 72cd37688ad3d8d9b437ba6714acc726 SHA-1: 0688554b930e6b9b52a18a22ce202d9cd374c057 SHA-256: 700d85f1fd9a2e3ce35990628a8a6c9197dfb712d35267a8d719a40352f20533
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, indicating an attempt to hide its true purpose, which is likely to facilitate phishing or malware distribution through these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9897

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=music+interval+worksheet+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://cartopack.com/Images/file/75958019823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hglobaltourb2c.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210728_0185B249D645DB6B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garyjetcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a80f687c5a426fcb726daa1bc8130a0b/36590190097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/dukunirepoleminam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobhendrix-law.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/40245723898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b11fc5a049c---69071070280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efc1895c2b---fuzotajovevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ed1fcc676---sekez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62dd6311e5---98439377909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alaskacounseling.org/clients/8/87/870ae3779d21e956d596131c1dd113ff/File/4573817086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5jmrk0b3gvmmoh9nhmpn8j5235/62227014250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akhsmombasa.com/clients/861898/File/jarukojasejuwikezejaparob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/12564753014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/91732079259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0294572c4c---98910974026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610487600a2d4---34751992584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkglobalcompliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75633663198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevvalturizm.com/rsm/files/pujofozupozonoselizazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/91472711060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/596ac118fb3a4d840447e4b1c379fa86/demozifezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pu7lfsqgi6sm5111uv396t6md5/seguxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd988145ac---mijemasevefex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shipnhanh247.vn/asset/files/77614821780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malabarmail.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63469692740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43c09d3181---xubifaxevonogegemokotepub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf0d15d71d---bosuxusujuxone.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_off0001130c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1130C 16944 bytes
SHA-256: 384a9cd2ccaca4287e7805f73ede054055a1f38997ed38265e8ab749b8ffec76
font_01_sfnt_off00013f09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F09 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 06aed83f60f7c764b413402f6146c49f0e35205ad86ebcdb1ea44a5831b6319a
font_02_sfnt_off00015788.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15788 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1