Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70b352f3f27ff467…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-08-16 07:15:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: da115f66074c09ad35a1bfd50e98a72e SHA-1: 9068f8139f13322862dd494e8228a178c67565d0 SHA-256: 70b352f3f27ff46778d5ac184b0ce06c0f9ad734e1e3f1eb02ab5fc91027fdbe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a common phishing or malware delivery technique.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+program+my+philips+universal+remote+to+my+samsung+tv PDF link annotation
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c08f7ec3576---97833160035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghaija.com/userfiles/file/57465905986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4acf3c64d5754619035f69d0435eaae/sizezuwanoxafisapebapej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079cb654c2f0---63948578420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0753b956ca---volizulobezobagovedavijos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millecolori.it/images/file/vudenekuxovogilefudela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sipsak.nl/userfiles/file/lonaruviposufumewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607657b183345---78239419509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a80173f3f5c2620dd9ad7e0514a35df/ritolizibaderu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.info/files/files/67327943116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35d168a024fc0e9262fbb39b7e419c50/finuduxibik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf0640954cbf607f8fe5e79464915251/25814931940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aca45af51c139041dad5c2c3eab41a4c/31196229541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fandimnarodaku.cz/upload/file/48335039395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee8ec626ea5---dunerepakiduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dfe95357cfa75717b20496062321060/sipozuzikimabafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bititechnika.com/uploads/file/58163653025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25d6793b7ab9fa9f0693654b9aa500fe/60093871672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec010267399bc284540a5dfb556292e8/58116923751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casentinoshopping.it/file/jiwobuxoxidujegivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/71488607819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://facades-et-traditions.com/actualites/file/27593756818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bassbasement.org/userfiles/file/58629750923.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_off0000e977.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE977 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001018e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1018E 11196 bytes
SHA-256: 40a0462eada7fb690fd37429de0b2ac8a0a268eae5d51647bf203230ba0835f6
font_02_sfnt_off00011b61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B61 16700 bytes
SHA-256: 1b26d188a46e95e4a6bf7d8463268de5a03619ceb3d6352115a72f59df7d806d