Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70a19cf405bb3383…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-08-22 00:20:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 081a64d8a89d508a9e43b36defbe45b3 SHA-1: 1d0621119cf46323d8b9def0c8ee875039f855ac SHA-256: 70a19cf405bb3383e3eb15e5c3631227094e00e16b78cdff4fca3f4040357b8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on its specific lure.

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 http://rebizplus.com/userfiles/file/jiwoje.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/vinumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hd2sasagjm04lk4jqu9qb039g7/serizajow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69420574467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bpsstudio.hu/uploads/7174701526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apz-arte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85230669753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bcbb96edae---fujiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d1d9a222b4dc7a61d98601fe1eb5d93/gajiduluninebunoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c6aaace83e0fd0c6b8cb4cab3b47a34/dupeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbd1efbc141---57147826759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iuu5sil2d8ugi2u1e1l3ujuorb/sifezominudovewedufetir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccjsc.com/images/uploads/files/jilerexogijumawabodoxuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyneco.kr/userData/board/file/verejojasor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsarvn.com/media/ftp/file/41228517099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexspa.pl/userfiles/file/fowabizosabulavonubewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cpnatacao.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guzezufike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahbrown.us/clients/860103/File/4944993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/motowudumuwowunamasaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexspa.pl/userfiles/file/jigepadifebosufitofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3q1p.com/upload/file/210804145613390626e6c1gkvping0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempatpasang.com/contents//files/39072874222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b6e30a432---wopakomenakaxibexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akgoz.zemta.com/uploads/files/31796304533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=james+bastien+piano+basics+theory+primer+level+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1d9c1ebd5efe0752c227d6f8e90a04b/57059704457.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_off0000c334.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC334 11196 bytes
SHA-256: 1840cf1f081f8717f78a4cc06e210875cb2670a5d7c98f2a2175edbbfd9ca767
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD05 16196 bytes
SHA-256: bda308279d7043f4b35865842f73fd7eac9dc120c07434327467f0fb90c74433
font_02_sfnt_off000106f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1