Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70a9e88d27d63cd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:00:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c3b396e1046ac8dbd4f4e2bee784e795 SHA-1: 41cb0e6ef06acea307818b7789db45efe81db521 SHA-256: 70a9e88d27d63cd3b42f7741f6a9cbcb6aecb224e30de066eb1d695dd8c9ce8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning model indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links strongly indicates an attempt to facilitate phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9b8fc9541---mujonubedelemifadujox.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/97042738743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e12a8327f7aa4c256c42d46969c8460e/43493078868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96ee9dce1ebc1ed0aaf94bb1b1e33191/tinodikisekoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8768266242---kifafedafesenegijegitar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc631a8be4---vivifobumew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/vobukunawejifubofamipemog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skupka54.ru/upload/m/dajadug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b592864300d0d5d3eb19d0c5ab77cc0d/88002349332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ir4kh9qc2hgebfdu6k3feh4ljc/83815943556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/kuboremuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/8656217668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctapigroup3.com/contents//files/xowupaxogugivegotidugeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a07e644fd04---xudezukuxokimarekujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc8e7a41d4cc08fe18dc63461dc7b8a0/dexifalevovani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/4059767733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9meclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44930488657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e33fc243c1---tizevizevedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802c0b842fd---40158364000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oriental-kitchens.com/userfiles/files/63773582235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a450fa6c33b---3781592244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/10520058326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110197fd7427---85926891699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinniescustoms.com/userfiles/files/61742428026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=network+analysis+gis+pdfPDF 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://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_off0000cf43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF43 18368 bytes
SHA-256: a1f374b7c1b7e7914c03211fb0444e5a487cd29b4b95362db5d4d7295d79a9de
font_01_sfnt_off0000fde6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDE6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000115fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115FD 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 12945ca39a3015c83095872184353d680b81e87c0840ff8a82e066300d73fc18