Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70206246fd52e1f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 08:43:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: faa74686901cad78ef6166161500d505 SHA-1: 29678e32c8aec8beb68077446f8bbdf294adf53a SHA-256: 70206246fd52e1f26d93ca35d09c9ac51485b3f37b4df0a44afb62272e039645
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites. These sites appear to host further PDF files, suggesting a multi-stage attack designed to lead users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769ea0e16e6---dasiremubewamifimog.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efd9f56fb431df76b89a329ddd4ddc44/xonuropa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f9c64c8f0c---vipeduseseviluwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb3e631b506---71631909137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ff007ad630---22078914882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carneslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mexadunirididono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45uodvjiggk289bnrkeenodk8j/57327683267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb2dd0ce30---96429782981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafiport.com/userfiles/file/73583266343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6lp7oeecg5h5s8fidtttt3nu5a/37811619670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48fec4dcc05d478624cb6b8467c42a94/wexepepiwezivuforoduso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--pr3b03lcdvwu9dpynqkc.com/DATA/file/20210613200816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/84044674534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccf9546602a---dakutajokexanubotiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607113de28e3d---95833732324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emrc.ie/upload/imagecontent/file/pesimemejovurogoliper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uncde9qcessq173jald5gouh97/6456235919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b10330f95---3752720649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ti34c4aoa8a1kbcge94limr80/vosesetepola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh-ruiyangcpa.com/userfiles/file/2021-6///202169719135150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec2a0d1e53---pepigol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4d1305f5ca---82452871466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-3/20210503030022202408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07b57fccae6877b1eee54e84a9eb0276/pavax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=water+pollution+activityPDF 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_off00011ed3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000136e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136E5 17028 bytes
SHA-256: b10da1e80e3c48d976c2b27792e86ee36a43a3eb76a762b875e57a90033801e6
font_02_sfnt_off00016330.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16330 10472 bytes
SHA-256: d51f9f38946ba7b6e24dae23ff44c33ddfe69ae3ceb358c0f7740274b13df4bf