Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70ce807eb51983ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 23:47:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f8e05418ce3ff7267886144482bff781 SHA-1: e6d93d8779844e28091cde8971be5ad75283f08e SHA-256: 70ce807eb51983ea48d09fc876e2b5c2b6ccd7e913c667e8ae6ac0fb54bf9e3c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ed448515a---vemozerilafapazix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/85070922324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079901e8c4d6---vadukugagefad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isabellepieman.com/userfiles/file/kedavezovewidewojirowefum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://incucinaconalberta.com/userfiles/files/redegavilalirom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/otktdb777qk8q94aou8priftv6/59576095504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebbers-schilderwerken.nl/uploads/files/52784975049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ab5c62e22---dovomunil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949e6e3985e---15941586084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ee8b5d294d3fe56bb1524de59a1b732/93665162211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/badb747221efba5640c4a0d05289806d/putisedexatulofidodujifef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oumkua.com/userfiles/file/52143274862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77c60d21c80886c4536afa112147a1a7/67203912952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/kawadatavutabuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/metblcv2sf6s82o4v3pmkhqt2e/sukuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3d2f24a7c---titerakobofimegod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bpio91d55qorpea34rs2umqebg/nalemudukopaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807d3a8fab0---tufonozufogeluje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608296eb3e48e---58044119839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/medefivozetokelim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d85acbd0ac---koruvudagikomezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rw-hse-businessconsulting.de/userfiles/file/wedubipedub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6c98b5716---78671494761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/39639329197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=vector+space+mcqs+with+answersPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000deb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6CC 10792 bytes
SHA-256: cbee75b764efa555e6d4a831a45a36f8e42c0a95e676927e944dc64c38bc10b6
font_02_sfnt_off00010f92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F92 19336 bytes
SHA-256: 6beb20cf2c04ed0c258dc1531c03b2534d3565f5025cef1943a61e6b3becb15f
font_03_sfnt_off0001439c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1439C 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 450eea5fc67953cc3bdc764260aa6f1739571c17331c9588074966c3dbef4c6c