Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70590274ae43bbd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-20 07:59:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a84721c9786e767d3ba15247c1d83fca SHA-1: e244e4e349d90bb4aa7e8ae3df75c4c8e4c3e59a SHA-256: 70590274ae43bbd36ad292b26df72d5085adf089781e4786f3a7d4630a17cdac
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting sites, likely to serve malicious PDFs. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97ec7b29ed---85859633885.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac513eaa74dcbda4c5fc45bf2c0ae35e/vasuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c466071833---vibolaliwiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecbb7f1e5ce---27687747832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4b5b77636e43cd84f846e7f7fdc9175/rulenidafexiragunukopep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdale66ersreunion.com/clients/c/c6/c679c52642bc64dd8629b98fb95ccc77/File/jeletutunogurulorifigor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e692fc7ddfe---33239572516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/samexuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.com/userfiles/Files/rilanakuxamonexakatekaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/47345166960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creptiles.dk/userfiles/file/10619832868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160957fe412d0e---lumowowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae55ec8ee13cb141376ccbeb950c7e80/8666930902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzynowska-kancelaria.com/userfiles/file/kevafaravujagexibezabez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupopiscis.com/upload/files/nunisofufusubabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nugk5109nnhf7jrjchb7kfdr45/keragijoboweponowaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/kalowusemaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb692c4537---veduroxawani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/matapenojapurunufasuzor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolicka.eu/foto/images/file/25986717016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e2e756d9bb---dotijori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://washchienluoc.com/upload/file/kolegakuzelazilapubijinom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc412a95568d8fdf7f59a9f63e16c5a0/37771816441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otvorene-srdce.sk/userfiles/file/mofinisolajifolisuxepar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+effective+is+the+morning+after+pillPDF 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_off0000eaf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAF0 17468 bytes
SHA-256: 3996e813a1113a1f4b4db79cecf32900285ea8c30ccdec15c19e699b1cfcb9e7
font_01_sfnt_off000118df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130F6 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 0fd0215e90778f4e9bab8692b866c40d4fd9740dc74206e5388fd8a25c41e585