Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 701940e477e14e92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-07-24 13:02:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: ff9293f1a65595e4e0bc58368adba61e SHA-1: 6c44792d4c55332d40cba4b370ca6c02381b143f SHA-256: 701940e477e14e92b9d3909c843b4589d3dfb0414e1f4fe9816e3c0f4ab7531d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites hosting further PDF files. This suggests a multi-stage attack, likely for phishing or malware delivery, leveraging a chain of redirects to obscure the ultimate destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05f81ca70a57e772df1bd96a4459451e/gilamaviruj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1c400d31fa---16711772589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66om0ahs45cho9mokqq41crmj3/9241413729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093072a53861---repalokopalafitojopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898032d8c76---85162048527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsijiqing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2021/0722/13e6ec088e3dbac8e8aa0f3de8eafc7b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvhs1980reunion.com/clients/e/e5/e5e9f74eb83211af097e98bf68d59c4c/File/77598159401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jocoseatee.com/userfiles/files/96541249700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41d8f4905db2fe69849778061263ba51/11235653435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robbinsfamilyhealthcare.com/clients/2/2c/2c787fa606fc56c3a3a24dfc5409695f/File/zetebibedotuzozuzitepunuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160890d681af1f---41276195204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ib12g651dl50l4ptijhuu6dsum/pinolipagoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puppies-4u.com/clients/e/e7/e7f09595da74c05d2059c741134300d2/File/bivixadivoximemak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipsupply.ru/userfiles/files/defatesepakifibew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7812d421d---66229826250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://z87992961.com/upload/files/20210724090420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c266623e3---fajonofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a42389a94b---42850769703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skinrepublic.vn/webroot/img/files/88633491155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65r3thv7rvh52h6k1gpkgcdhl8/67240422748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/46005736023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netcsemege.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58076871979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072cd5987c8f---dolimulivesivedukazamal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4reality.cz/userfiles/files/45609388196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushi6.com/uploads/files/zekumabuxuvavevukanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=is+better+comparative+or+superlativePDF 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_off0000f7ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7EF 17560 bytes
SHA-256: 749502ee1ab0ca88549b9372068542405b3dcd610b55b8c120593ea556d8417c
font_01_sfnt_off0001263e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1263E 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 7ed82359c099f4d205208d4f4a7035af5aace6944e6e659f47d08acc20f1a977
font_02_sfnt_off00013e9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1