Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70c7843dd5d1f4dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:24:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a5fe35627a801764b54f0e91a71c61e4 SHA-1: 3e4d9e5fb41080b8b8f2de21882dd3ea83521dc8 SHA-256: 70c7843dd5d1f4dc137ffaa8b4eadaacd4b89b654402d23a9e7bfc3557914636
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to trick users into visiting these sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9888

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fidic+red+book+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://parejalecaros.com/adjunto/upload/fck/files/bafulupeberidewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okeefesreef.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sunejivazewikideziliboruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161105dbbf23e9---43785547119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yapluka-services.fr/userfiles/file/8784468065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e92ihs8nsc5j9ctjpqrsj1098k/bupitot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjcfurnituremaker.com/userfiles/files/53920521473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160885e6861045---bopeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e6eb306db---27957232010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b66d44d9e2c---gubefuzobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baglab.pl/galeria/file/libira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazomotor.com/allinone/file/95535283870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8af9343f97---1437661958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc1f10e9d62860e4376b4429ec90855b/4508847479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/xaxanazerab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://napraforgohotel.hu/upload/file/50741413941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d950c76ad---5839183943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb49c90cc9ed91c51012a848c082a30c/95800196109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/wijidowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kedehg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70941640572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af4fde8e43b---11043488778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dennehylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zilagegabimomerusetoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ap-qatar.com/userfiles/files/faguxidamawasomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120812095fbd---jaxuwalezanax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-margherita.biz/userfiles/files/28649152603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610fe6d755e49---41637201421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvoirostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32262985225.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_off00010e44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E44 10640 bytes
SHA-256: dd2c6604baa79caaa0ad06e2b949db7da1f51289ee7a459c634b8382e9400bc7
font_01_sfnt_off0001267b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1267B 19508 bytes
SHA-256: c2cdd12fbc5075fbabf8f012bc96f814a346696879773e85aba4aac4b7de22ea
font_02_sfnt_off00015985.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15985 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1