Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 706d08f26441726f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-11 12:35:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d097ca828a09ede960f0d0e3d3ae6877 SHA-1: c7b9738228a5e15239872c3eee61f84d32f41e02 SHA-256: 706d08f26441726f6568d3f7ff963f05cd35553d79f8da80544541102cb75be6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits PDF vulnerabilities or contains malicious content. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting domains, which is a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous external URIs and compromised CMS upload links strongly suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=puffin+pro+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://pfmconsulting.org/survey/userfiles/files/85900065660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/disajolifirupin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea03d553b67e651f22c31c6dc1cacfdc/28200840228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evrenmentese.com/upload/ckfinder/files/fekugowemanebixapij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.com/images/upload/File/wuvobelirokitigut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135e11781348---farujeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613961bc5f4a2---penesapesenemikesuwodoliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ap2kggbq71esi3e9obo01v4ban/22116551044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranhtreo.com/images/ckeditor/files/25738076373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lonerangerfanclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39859392847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omnistopbollards.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jogukipul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochisushi.nl/survey/userfiles/files/37729193311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansonseatery.com/uploads/files/55329680496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igabana.com/upfolder/e/files/20210908232819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewhitmerlawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/91604711558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reha.bg/content/upload/file/vesotuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snnet.kr/board_pds/fckeditor/2021/09/file/55263490867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrspk.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28163817232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tainghe.vn/userfiles/file/raxomitefuropataje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzps.pl/userfiles/file/pojojug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoop.legreniervert.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nisibutojijivitiko.pdfIn 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://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_off0000dfd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFD6 19008 bytes
SHA-256: 088445990cdf0a04667912314a8f38d37064aaa7b33002ccc2dffb788a6f72b8
font_01_sfnt_off000111df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111DF 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 655cc2fe8604a92f4b67a853a2f32354e9bb84b4a5540513f9a118915bd78dfd
font_02_sfnt_off0001298a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1298A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1