Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 708deead65b79b36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-05-27 16:08:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 89486f378c5047793fb4d51d554e5fb7 SHA-1: 74acc633ed592ddc9d726cb8136d9459cf43df2b SHA-256: 708deead65b79b369cae99fa75afa78c2c395a0ddd5a71513ea1663cf444e26f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site, potentially to download a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e127179461---23098013723.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903af398079---memexenazefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a5b562a53d8400627491ba76cc8ce54/jegilamemujimev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5014796632---rawov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7stb15jg8pbobkotaucj5gum97/fosiwepapanisesosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789f145c49b---mewibevebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpb-maciejewski.pl/upload/fck/file/3111141355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8djc8d1lpuimalja2mj3kb88pb/81342487763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b8a9eda3fbeae0afdf322ab7b45886d/zulidupowog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/806ebb45292fe3c3f5f96097b22d8338/xovatuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ca80e2711a2b32110bb8a642917b6fa/23770970588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muszempilla.com/files/file/91080231411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a78a5c4a3fd---69950265078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15b0759f9fb8a37d2edc2d4eefd94762/gigutorumivenefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f66ed04e8---nexewemurogozumojef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+edit+pdf+on+a+mac+for+freePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fa4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA4D 5144 bytes
SHA-256: f96d39b525069f63e9ba7491974e8979beeca9893353d7157a6929d4150069b0
font_01_sfnt_off00010bcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BCF 11384 bytes
SHA-256: 0ef22e7b3ec80bbc274d94a3a0325ddf2c887823fc8655a556b9f674e3efe2b0