Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70152143a1ac8dc9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-07-17 17:46:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0ea2709f3e44140a1b4edbd6532ecb6f SHA-1: 6f592ec3b0884493525476b043e55409657de250 SHA-256: 70152143a1ac8dc973bd25dc52a9efb446de7e315038c8719edb0f0981de9e5c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. This structure suggests the document is designed to act as a link farm, potentially for phishing or distributing further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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 http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1bfa1c0c9663baa18c93f50a50c716a/robariponiwarudotevofeza.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/572452a99e59cf500076c2a17662b658/2413967910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7dfe49364b43c634d9da2aaff76deee/75214104775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/292f97ec7ba8b534af12a953fc6a662d/wemefijasedigagimejer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-daily.jp/app/webroot/contents_img/files/23688061893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/39253529579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0656af9bfdb08c82445e24d4d8a47e7/bijasumoturabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb3ab717a1---5562926652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonorganica.ru/upload/files/sutotevuwaxuvozene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/86430881033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sorejidbv5dvtujronnhb7mkqm/85838465835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090aabeabebb---35172177318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b46b4d0c2bd---xuripudezomusug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/281a2ab4867135ca198f9d72e3c988ed/zikileluxupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-machinery.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/3620813255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andana.us/files/files/11081830978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90c24590c1bdd7db4a7194cbc5f83fa5/59333668457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upbilbao.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6074496587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837662bd15a---jagil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/27957573872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakwanudang.com/contents//files/71108084742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoretras.com/file/kugijexubegifeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=7+altars+in+the+biblePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fd52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD52 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011563.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11563 17000 bytes
SHA-256: bfdfbb58b39196c963d62c62612a48a3e278f5daa06dae888dfae425b53a4461
font_02_sfnt_off00012e4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E4A 16844 bytes
SHA-256: 10ce66f07d5fd8f638bae214a22640b0dcf6b89b5847491ac4e34f49cedde22d
font_03_sfnt_off000159d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x159D2 10176 bytes
SHA-256: a03470996c7323005a1772e897d534f7d44438ad420b9040e1ba17c588b01419