Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70bd0438ad933166…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:27:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a87438b8df3d41c2fbeb4539ccb25133 SHA-1: 06943948c175a6c1b6009fb018456f6dc9bf0ae1 SHA-256: 70bd0438ad9331664f66415d4a8855a9809acfb3822c19adc1865f92cca0fad9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the URL analysis and heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=flag+quiz+and+answers
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/98231580008.pdf
    • http://bharatandcompany.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuboxomu.pdf
    • http://jeanthompson.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1160513019.pdf
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/runuzivevipeziduvaboso.pdf
    • http://sirmamedia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39586887346.pdf
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/92734436881.pdf
    • http://candientuvibra.com/images/file/tezavaxipafijiragijosil.pdf
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb3dfb4f69691687b2bb2e866c7f309e/80597879143.pdf
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c35b5e43c13---86110335120.pdf
    • https://silga.ca/userfiles/file/fewizizipokonobikuxadefeb.pdf
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/55303449354.pdf
    • http://studiopol.com/userfiles/files/61454429962.pdf
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/altmi4uvisgs5003sdlls4gua5/zukowuleva.pdf
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/15565476038.pdf
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c968dbd70aa---25514319365.pdf
    • https://deltarents.com/upload/ckfinder/files/7689816656.pdf
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/38406691480.pdf
    • https://tbsva.org/Upload/files/20210712194303.pdf
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a26d12145b---62317924716.pdf
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70077eaa3d8c5069fb40f6ecbef927b2/xeperinovazoja.pdf
    • https://atkarisuli.hu/userfiles/file/87045849281.pdf
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mp1a8sn5t70jm5rm2dr4kr13oi/nivuvagapezutotuwopuwelen.pdf
    • http://oikoscoccatoarchitettura.com/userfiles/files/lutuvezekaworimunibo.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cf85.bin
075dda2e8c1d9425d4ea4ff1327d6d9e95722f6b17be1743f81e792a99ea2744
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF85 17844 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd10.bin
2593b8517352d165d555e574bf72457e228998f6a30a3aabfec417a4636fdcb3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD10 10576 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000114d4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114D4 16792 bytes