Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70b8e33901d473a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-06-18 09:09:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0e6821e163c93cda6f9162c25f99dbfa SHA-1: e994abd4f19a036773a612fa15c4d28314a5b877 SHA-256: 70b8e33901d473a019c8757af27377afa3d0d0f5cfbbb49322f127aaa83cf768
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file is detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Taylor swift love story song download free mp3', suggesting a lure for users seeking free downloads. The presence of numerous external URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://aonetreks.com/uploads/file/7482454023.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c05a6e8d6c---zokev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/34582808452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eccd58befed4f2ee963d5a29b978e4c7/60799104520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/sopaguvilidasewetusak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d5dc6dddac8a2e395233078d110d8ee/70280949394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729dca97f29---4676504027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f9dfeda14c---vapomunagafuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokemom2.com/uploads/files/95536562559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad3d4c4c4cc---86241323666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3aa9d41436158e99e786cead64087218/6573616035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/107319251fb65d15703780eec2ef2b80/63021112996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emotionpicturesfestival.gr/userfiles/file/xofamuvulapanubuvazomuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hfrgf1984m03jfcrs063edklej/zutipowakofoxotinikebidub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fee87af939---53776458726.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/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=taylor+swift+love+story+song+download+free+mp3PDF 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_off0000e202.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE202 5728 bytes
SHA-256: 466be24fa43da3a0eb70a84ef064ce798f0a411eca9a53c989781d3eb8453519
font_01_sfnt_off0000f599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF599 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 95adf31de04a1843f8f4c2ea6ccfd74aaee6e95806a734cc3033742d497def19