Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 708c069480ace90d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-05 03:37:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 4c7655ac89cc2cc600491d50b2b89c3d SHA-1: aebca181bf1dafc74febd5418a7b467be0382298 SHA-256: 708c069480ace90dfcd2369da5368da272e0a403de57758781ddacffbfa8df7a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute phishing content or malware. The presence of external URI heuristics further supports the attack pattern of directing users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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=vegan+black+forest+trifle PDF link annotation
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e2f49eaf67---34233941465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lumieretvie.com/userfiles/file/fotirozakumadebifademi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1760a1a44239f3cba7ae9ec2fe20263d/45781772755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c03c010f8233a2ff1c5d716a8af7b087/22149948596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/kevagivekaxavujudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8be437f43---kegudivoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/duwuzexizezogirarisakod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phdpecs.hu/userfiles/files/nowopomimututepokaxolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e196627f44037047c107e99ba497022e/viwetivujekidopegorapig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6cfb3b51d7898d8f8ac35dbbad75ea5/40579114624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1d9be3fe95cb01b331d66019ffe07af/13144957808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylgems.com/file_media/file_image/file/57057563969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juvelyrikoscentras.lt/Files/file/12705447267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/newutegijuxutamavokido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095794b8bf34---12500989400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080af1c81750---puzixitugubojoxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fosametavodovafoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://21cedu.com/pds/userfiles/files/xusedepijabesugafoxolilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euredit-editions.com/userfiles/file/mokilarivezokefifaxusoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doudou.tw/userfiles/files/gilete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52fd6801bfe842cb7702fc4f0e2f1d8c/revodinigarefenivifipejix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5eb1745daf---wijusatubagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatbiodiesel.com/userfiles/file/kekuromoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac27d50ec31---78702907189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihanoi.net/uploads/files/bixux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/42417937048.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_off0000f271.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF271 10712 bytes
SHA-256: dfc3e22d5b12bb57da6fbcd02085adb3974b140951efa486c203944142a4f26d
font_01_sfnt_off00010b33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B33 17276 bytes
SHA-256: 3e280706270677052689deb10e7f7f670c4603e58700cf2d99e0c193ab86ff77
font_02_sfnt_off00013832.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13832 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1