Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70503feded1eaae0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 00:46:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8c377782d5facd2cb29a25b80f76f36c SHA-1: 0914c20c4ecc4c7a8861051e96afeeaab0db9bcc SHA-256: 70503feded1eaae084f985c97fd5b7aecfce9e4d2140749f27d44faf3252b20b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites that appear to be compromised or hosted on disposable domains, a common tactic for phishing or distributing malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or a trojan delivery mechanism. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content to analyze.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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 http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ff4f7cf2a---pidozipakigonudozopimanox.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xinghui.co/upload/ckimg/files/202109132318242379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341603b9b4d---48005398252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artesapanaderia.xyz/aym_image/files/84346203564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nada70.org/userfiles/file/lipibosogad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekadc.pl/userfiles/userfile/lawolarafifar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freetds.net/userfiles/file/wulozowutebaxese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbypet.cz/files/file/16609959654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basalyemek.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17845092003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/mukuzerupijegagemuzibini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tckontrola.hr/files/6668483345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614082c96672c---fomonozaxisizagiputo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phuketvillarentalandservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99236615832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceleevideos.org/images/file/romolilokor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lindendirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zogodurosaripokulaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/venumudepixotoxuxogemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renknh.com/ckupload/files/3019489128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibonatura.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pakufemosasituxigabenaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proleague.dk/userfiles/file/gilifemevalidamob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/74533874803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipssecurityconsultants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zelatolomuper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hippodrome-compiegne.fr/www/uploads/file/9183743142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fslawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/61822117344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpokebar.com/uploads/files/venomulamukurutuvimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paoladebenedetti.eu/userfiles/files/kevixivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411fd918f43---99354524061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biblioteka-belzec.pl/upload/files/33129136362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=top+colony+sim+gamesPDF 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_off0000daba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDABA 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 76fa89d9c1cb542449205bb1543b83ea1d6a4e6b42159a8169a161a3ed68c360
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F2 17968 bytes
SHA-256: d59e43c670c18d84bb40f09184bdc98b2c312c0526bf8191270114dc5d57914c
font_02_sfnt_off000120d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1