Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70bb39ada923ec9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-10-06 05:12:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 9390ff40c8a8d2e314aec6024c3ba1c8 SHA-1: 31df371aa3db3217889ad7eed43bd8e7c1a07c10 SHA-256: 70bb39ada923ec9b71792634e58f94a10e0be09df5bd9f65c8ab86ee541e6203
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The presence of multiple PDF link farm indicators suggests a deliberate attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161588126a6846---28312315434.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jumpstart.mobi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vezonokulijavajewif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotnews.md/upload/userfiles/files/14109466529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bolt.fo/public_html/userfiles/files/larositivadupopumubuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feminella.ro/upload/fck/93819198891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limoride.net/gallery/file/jubabapazidavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gomsuhoangminh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/lozetopaxopegagidiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f04e7807e36095c9a866c9d27f0e26d/95602536173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessibilite-salle-eau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jabide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reichspfarrer.sk/file/tomojakejesizixetemixup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/geg2pv3pcge3m7ik2aap71umct/meradipetebejejowaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rootbeadmill.com/upload_fck/file/2021-10-3/20211003175527601242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef3eb3ab62---wezufepiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topspeed4wd.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50779699101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://35ju.21tg.cn/uploadfile/ckeditor/files/52122218063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/mutovadojijebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtyvima.com/images/Download/75324190830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5a.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zafana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trisad.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puxiwekaladewexata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qatarsecurityservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/67107282605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anglometais.com.br/adm/Editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25279414784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regiefranchet.fr/userfiles/files/susenedekomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beyondpins.com/calisma2/files/uploads/mumifir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u3l9ctvgg6gicvjk17qmuejtt8/10486846123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterky.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/malojaxuzazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=12+hard+questions+for+the+world%27s+largest+religionPDF 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_off0000e74d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE74D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF64 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 073a714620580bbb22020bc505f891f7b157f83744237768a9df69f5e9a9c26b
font_02_sfnt_off000118c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118C9 18712 bytes
SHA-256: 4e35cbc4d93f19dbebdb27424e82c49665b818628e795753ad3d57e39701a185