Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70d1fa3f6ebaf965…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 21:55:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 02e06309c92798aa823bc92d554d596e SHA-1: 1d331ca9cc5a0f5e8e21beba2ed538f9f2a35e28 SHA-256: 70d1fa3f6ebaf9658e05f211b5e177479b752e0489de8e3cb32b925f755b1fa9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is classified as malicious by ML and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms 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 lure users into clicking malicious links, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sample+manager+user+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d21e12339b---kakeros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e567341edbf79ead6fbaa36549ecc72/44376946518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813be3b0f6f---50783400714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laps.pl/userfiles/file/zepupadewodafotata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diginowepubipifofox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibliotekaludwin.pl/img/upload/files/puxezosot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogo110.com/userfiles/file/niruxupelujopusewenaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/992b03f32e6aabe3822fe123e093857f/51682690557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istvietnam.com/rich_editor/file/76853139271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/jufepejusupadelod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ngno0eg9546lhb97uph8j1hiut/mutokoradeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r58bl3l7d45239sq9dku1i0r8s/15265800313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mudh78j3v2hjja7krqimc3ggj5/depapuputaxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/8203581077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dawnrotaryclub.tw/UserFiles/files/29716164727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf8dd140f5---risedidal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nccutrackandfieldalumniandfriends.com/clients/2/2c/2cea5a7e730406ee40dfbbde6098010c/File/wasorakivezimopofiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d48c8d0226af753c7a74c6b83ac95c7/14292580922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuongdonggolf.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/ninebolozupodaxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c12fab5430---59000542216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gangnampools.com/contents//files/63304220510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-29/20210629005750724763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/69578612758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conelser.hu/fck_uploads/file/85828269421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6471460273.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_off0000e57b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE57B 10460 bytes
SHA-256: ff9f2f94baf7d4f932e0a9f0be62844c9bf4c0775cd80da40b01d17e1c6c2440
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD23 17888 bytes
SHA-256: e746436b3995687b54fb588e32c4cc411a44d929f15d3573ce22fcde52b6f67a
font_02_sfnt_off00012bd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1