Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 705c88c3d53e86d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-06-08 21:28:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3a54ea792f9cd46e73a80ee1e4ec1ce4 SHA-1: d3556ea94eb37713751e4f0168cf2e2847bdfead SHA-256: 705c88c3d53e86d93ff5626075b11f6e8f5485eff2175eedc7601771f12a672a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be junk data, not user-readable content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=battle+for+middle+earth+2+cheats+pc PDF link annotation
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23e168bb35fde3c6fcb1e973a576e0d6/3804953139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9fad9a0830---15409544901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15b2d2a862---xitimorax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ritadularodub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094239f78ebf---44951809400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081dada31dab---8643663334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c2337e159accc141ceaa6aebecaa569/58524619429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb2d1c5463---92098150313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820a229d0cd---65837811876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77e4494f78dab917691db14236e5e988/94599171698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/76764094967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a169cb34852---kaxawotegapug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r5ngjvt181adm1abgpqiput8e7/jivefasigenemavimewogedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinhadventure.com/uploads/file/bogidusenafinozikejux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primebrokeragetx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xepulusewiravofadazut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a435bb8d82---7834094054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e46b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE46B 5576 bytes
SHA-256: e509ddb38218d3f6daae677f4fba8d17f97aeae54196760226bae12ef3a47f33
font_01_sfnt_off0000f73d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF73D 11072 bytes
SHA-256: ed56a53912bc0c61ba70ac555421425576bee678e24eeae22d389fa0a58876c3