Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70110dfb2940f195…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 19:17:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: add3f3b2f6679cbff50bcc55217c3a44 SHA-1: d6788e641c0ba5723ab7839a2841388540c6f72f SHA-256: 70110dfb2940f19535bb961e7380b02fc277989e4f3ba42c6381e800526041ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised upload links and disposable hosting URLs points to an attempt to obscure the true destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://appchecar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bajibijuwadupupopopevoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bjallstar.com/upload/file/zepukimutipageforurame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b29f7cbf0a---bawivolefavamosuzetix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092176d1b22f---18294931242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iqmuseum.mn/uploads/files/19861305521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ba888f26df62a33928181753c890e4c/mosavokipudinep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/437c9e6a3b3c169f4b2672004ab85dce/27475494000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f9be99188---dunenapulija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ktbni2h2ua6im99rqtg25rp48/65467375029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da353fe35330061e0e7a62819f6cbd9c/nedofakatuzufojugubexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a45d3370c07---9692578998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f339b276d1---2027022406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d628d6a898d---bojegizidevajizumibedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/52877540682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6c4182023b4393e5424480ba3312112/21701205789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df7737726e42f31f0f51db3c804fbd5b/siminijesunonugesavelexuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098318f626cc---goban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trimix.bg/UserFiles/File/xaziziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784eb3afa37---safunalezevira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d7c21475cb8e2159bc472ab44405eac/giretogenibarilewaner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dochoiotovn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/visowepobomejejonupavozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/70222521760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=add+check+marks+to+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_off0000d83b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD83B 17296 bytes
SHA-256: 5500eecb6ffd008bd364128bed00c79a463218673ae0cdfb84bb5108403eba10
font_01_sfnt_off0001059f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1059F 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 76f970f0886e7a858990abe418878ccf2fb09bfaa3fae40fa3859c05b3c2eae6
font_02_sfnt_off00011e51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E51 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1