Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70cdf88817399ae1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.5 KB Created: 2021-08-15 12:06:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9eefb5b194dbb9e1c62b1ace6757de1c SHA-1: bbeb0a3e4ac037302be422f68b252d2d4025c2ac SHA-256: 70cdf88817399ae1c9ca217fc13a7a5d9b587fd4ac52c0cbb2e65241c6a4ae97
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious websites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://bellina.pl/userfiles/file/xujaxusogipiwuz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dom-2000.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nubotologatipom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariomauracotti.it/userfiles/files/gexuxekidasakawavukemej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e0d3001904---kifedifivagazusexepopogom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/47459633370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-techfiber.com/userfiles/file/83002789068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec8ng681n1huu0bicffp9kn1h0/lulojutudifozuworitixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609417ffa87be---61650700939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/bikajaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceramicaartisticamarsalese.it/userfiles/files/19443732210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16092e7eb7f81e---65873791257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/16077282455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089e7dee7cd2---vifalatepaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c566731302170a9f1f8b5bd9c3103035/xamolamasusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd510b9c27e---pilonomogovifobesifam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9d74d895baf3b770a2d4da1f08ee01f/rawoxosugowirizivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33794916640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71cd92975a3a62a6d0cee62a49235832/pejut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3fcd557106567a41fa057526f151c7d/tosatabijadojibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.com/images/file/73249109344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadmoor80.com/clients/866172/File/97660489309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a94619434942018029d72cabb069ec0b/ritifotusodiwuxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poultech.net/d/files/bokomasugogoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=exercicios+de+concordancia+verbal+concursoPDF 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_off00011ce2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000134f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134F4 19564 bytes
SHA-256: b633c1658dc92e43cea7e83e193ce4f4b888352d543965b526096cf19ee8430e
font_02_sfnt_off0001652c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1652C 10656 bytes
SHA-256: dc53d875f31df635810b98f38d0d0f7cb24ac5db791079f64d16376fed5eb9fa