Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70acd10767be7758…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 22:04:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6b73bf0702f88429b0f0708197b502ae SHA-1: af6f83cb78007e70d24ba3046d4f5a6ba39f2166 SHA-256: 70acd10767be7758c93b6a245cc0220d86baf0745bb489360fe739113876d755
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains. These links likely serve as a lure for phishing or to distribute further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b82c4e19d94---maxufike.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/506015f35e9a713a5d7dbeb761c07761/92288934649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stollerco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/walirokak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/15192545631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ig7bo6v1v1vm7ju1fcd5nrf7f/1637488923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7jrhks4t42ooe31i0ivjhgoul/keranalovasabegode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c75eda9c41---20217225395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b10330f95---3752720649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/10974509354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratco-hardware.com/Ups/files/1768129977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbixanh.net/uploads/files/98931986649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/5537451647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aff41da2e9---sukodekerotomuzukude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avflash.nl/upload/files/20705081336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulanceservice.pl/userfiles/file/71256652011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directorvincentchow.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/23279794161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/70624184853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72ba208456e54a7471fd0314fdd6fd30/sasupipixupad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdbakademi.org/userfiles/files/sadikitedupuzuvuxovos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d03a39a6682---kolikaganutuwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee03460beb4---rakewomex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fpole.ru/sadm_files/radudevegitetusof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a989d87d443fb09c1dce38c2c17aa1f/61245261838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=asana+pranayama+mudra+bandha+pdf+italianoPDF 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_off0000d7b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000efc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFC8 17524 bytes
SHA-256: 51499bd1cd2d67eed636b41ddf383bd3ae6daf92672dce373c3acd3ad480270e
font_02_sfnt_off00011ceb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CEB 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 50b281ba1a51fa5d0d99242b38fabdd9dfa15c4cc6da0729befd6541d20fed70