Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70d7fc521aedc819…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-08-29 06:13:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 02f454ef8bd1dc1a271c86d726fb2c2a SHA-1: f0b9f4b43bd3fa0be61be76a04477a8ba89eec0f SHA-256: 70d7fc521aedc8192c2a3b2762e942bf332ac09443158600e9a389162c451a5f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of techniques used to deliver malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac54918fcd0---73409578442.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2de923a0cc---zepaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkwwta.org/userfiles/wovobejiseka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/92201131693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niszczeniewaw.pl/userfiles/file/juzepurukenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3417ad684---76933544879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheinmotel.com/userfiles/file/zusir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uzmansporzeminkaplama.com/resimler/files/xelasekoropidokan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shreyaghoshal.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/3577775853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mistral-paints.cz/userfiles/files/91073346522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegro.net/userfiles/files/punovifeviburixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f643924cbc0---25316318468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nocnepal.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40345153915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ontpg869ckc01m9ndalau50am/21615925622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetsnab32.ru/userfiles/file/35718857322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862f40439ac---tavibuxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=suffix+of+childPDF 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_off0000c5c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5C2 18844 bytes
SHA-256: b305315aded9c4b72e903a875be6d4b0867ddcc19ded3cfdcc3250d7d4114bbf
font_01_sfnt_off0000f691.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF691 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ea8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EA8 10088 bytes
SHA-256: 267ac4627ecda970585996e3665bbbea743a768e482a36a671ea651586c7eef8