Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 707b39ee10db38d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 14:59:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 34218afb9f1de24eb97da3c5cf8b813e SHA-1: b92ddc58841d121a625467abb63e3352c79ae410 SHA-256: 707b39ee10db38d2b2f8275ab8a8db132334f102033645dc6a7c28ff67109cb3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with multiple heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. The PDF contains numerous external URIs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. These links are likely intended to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rubine+water+heater+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81f845e8f55808f212f5861901012f31/50304006966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travellifeafrica.com/ci/userfiles/files/48571711895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/28730738281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/rizewunopej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonymusic.se/UserFiles/files/kubulotosefemekojab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e8093512e2---33061658956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f7b76c17f3---31326617372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/1180446742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4026ef2bb65fc6f012532a24d2658a51/76900738751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d24c90cd251---74804417865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pension-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/pilopalutivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/94508360981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611096e78e7d2---jenenedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c86b7209b4b3237f507b032199dd25c9/91949790482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e10a263387---21385858016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/kunerokarojojapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b065bdd0f5---juworude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a6f4282bde---7752605901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozgu-yapi.com/firma/files/90166331980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quesnelbusinessnetwork.ca/userfiles/file/88165249402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/48400047704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gleason.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77683681548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47728308180.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_off0000c0e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0E4 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 919bdb7ed028077a75dddae8988ff00440b63aed700efc516a9da2c60fe145a3
font_01_sfnt_off0000d873.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD873 18780 bytes
SHA-256: dc8c4efab5c2ab5185bd1c5bbe47b230323168726f9a6ec517c630c5c956d583
font_02_sfnt_off000108dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1