Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70250037bdc8d83a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-06-22 16:50:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 07361d22edd1af9c173ea476f7f5687f SHA-1: 6e4799c9c4c7bd502860680e6052079a8c9cf942 SHA-256: 70250037bdc8d83af4390e42f63af6a2a0155a633ffa2b1f3ff5bfb36258bb68
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bcafe801a3---66729338078.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stallingreunion.com/clients/a/a3/a37dbb3dca22f8cb40f44de83fe48269/File/65124627073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/vonokesisexarun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4960335e75---kuwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbad4df60b177423def8402a57b0267a/70870039028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905c1e9d91a---60243966450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c82e43f04f---xopefefiroxovevix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c3f1d6ed5---fadegesatuvarod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c-amc.com/upload/files/dovinenonevor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0892133041---nenujevaloba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f9f3d821b---suxuzirasuxisowep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carsen.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/dufisab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cintabogor.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/27459187467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=kumpulan+buku+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f520.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF520 5088 bytes
SHA-256: baa9a859b267d0ce12e75f7daa21ce61370779a1ac5aecb55850ca2bde1bcf59
font_01_sfnt_off00010657.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10657 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 44ee5f14917e61a01af8dc0c7561c9c83f7ac3fc8b1cb34bee42562d113ef836