Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70153831d031cbf6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 11:13:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 685df26aba653cf67990956f6e463ee9 SHA-1: 671ee76bd3ecfe69a13fc7d1f2681cb791b7e99c SHA-256: 70153831d031cbf6cfff16053c25096fb4e0f513b19d7f82c4f20562ade520d7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to phishing sites. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f708570e6faa40f3ef7d140a7f1856bc/45097317122.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/svig3bi3gi169sck2rbu0nqr71/purokusumasusototop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/sanim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weddingdiy.cc/uploadfiles/files/20210622_090312_1048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloria-eurex.com/61319513596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1751fc5f988326bcef025712ec170e53/mifalogegonukijikulifike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/pukeweponuzipemifuzajesaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082428f26314---nemazakade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a474aba3cdc---pewurelazivetanisokabuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/17294536379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toonesk.com/upload/fasete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb276cae130---7802627561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d880a6d27c1524912143677d91ffbf3/19449831178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b728439a937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/1976654835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd468963c8---28129239741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gddc1p2natv0g82bg9ms5qlbjk/44726821031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc9450485f7aa593b596505b1edcccd4/ramurixikedekod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf822c7437---gofizowexigoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/7435936885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guapa2.com/admin/fck/file/puferidiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072390b1eaa7---92903975036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fefb61007b69b6a509b2db8af44c82d/nokajitejixuzogikibidiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5337e31fabf0560e21dc6937135fcdbf/86358004238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senhewood.com/d/files/zuripevil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a367296093---vifusirobotoravasuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7450f9895c---28782180842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+empirical+formula+for+ch2oPDF 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_off0000f7c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7C4 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 308f2c4b78b0df519d152b090af1ff15e5773b82b2cd8f2ca850d419f73fd95b
font_01_sfnt_off000110e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110E3 17572 bytes
SHA-256: 8b8654917215952c84f6b62eed2c430559a7890eaa2ca0ac85b7b3ea14c249dd
font_02_sfnt_off00013eab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1