Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 701091e9c09ee595…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 06:08:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4ab2c02f24b10b9a83f482f40e651ac8 SHA-1: 430ad00bb5a0236c7ea8c3204e8a5ee6bd8442ef SHA-256: 701091e9c09ee5959532ba452d0e621b47e14c38c12450b1fecf4a310d28aa6a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=to+rant+about+something
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/38968510579.pdf
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609edc982cad4---misabalefokufuwelunukugex.pdf
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23025beaf2---79006600835.pdf
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762059a84c9---78468030289.pdf
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e67453c68d---xanofosevomunirepibobadek.pdf
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/vomepumamebefin.pdf
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fed6b55443f307708296da0031f1eefb/94519399041.pdf
    • http://suttonoakfarms.com/clients/880813/File/32717387184.pdf
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/bejawigo.pdf
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51d95cf1e4---10532889275.pdf
    • https://malikcolsys.com/userfiles/files/12051562652.pdf
    • http://posekatzahradu.cz/files/file/vivuxa.pdf
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ebfe994d84a1492136db5b9850f5d0f/refutajekanisodizedo.pdf
    • https://tyeetomsfishing.com/userfiles/file/dalagudivifuradokejif.pdf
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7fe3b78bb94fe54d08215e7443b2016/94142257013.pdf
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8f052980d30bdb68b01a301e2648dd1/27574505517.pdf
    • http://kccmaul.com/files/files/76162924186.pdf
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/1121255902.pdf
    • https://srmhospitalities.com/images/bulk_images/files/wogozegi.pdf
    • http://kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30799212847.pdf
    • http://dbjhockeytournament.com/clients/f/f9/f9ff496842c877cbb4522510b668f2a2/File/32438748041.pdf
    • http://dreamcatcherltd.com/userfiles/file/22114951402.pdf
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a613de441c4---96183317590.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_off0000d3c1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3C1 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebd3.bin
ecb53bf4c45f2df3ed71b91ab241c34d76224e59793f562a3a88e82fab0c9f46
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD3 18200 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011b8e.bin
ef943fa309115eda1f262373768dba0d3bb625597521a63305b99b3f63e7edd9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B8E 10712 bytes