Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70da609eab5c5835…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-13 23:37:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9a8bc45d201d0415ca8c1acfe56cc1d5 SHA-1: 3fa2b56e52b36b532d5ff06a308ee4cb02d12f13 SHA-256: 70da609eab5c5835215b3e4d8775741ca16128123c1982bc1befeb768af02882
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of urgency language further supports a phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ded3392174---95928464506.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/23127097882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hophungvietnam.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/welogavekenoritazarakot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serviphony.com/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/phpimage/phpimage/upload/images/file/37305224973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f61f8aea7a---rajezixepati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84978180150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieutrimun.myphamkangnam.vn/webroot/img/files/24455104681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yesilderecine.com/admin/editor_resim/file/61460266071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cd6b9b0918---menudilaken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613177b08d63f---30616884695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenshinorchids.com/FCKeditor_upload/file/sudawuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bongkartuantakur.com/contents/files/29821072240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whkmradio.com/userfiles/file/43385752441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/63253598412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mama-light.net/business_school/uploads/file/86908231100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imdmotors.com/uploadfile/file/2021090801233621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tienhasteel.com/app/webroot/upload/files/15554690427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0bca28046596b4d59c0155991a1f6e4/95094550696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kliknetezde.cz/admin/obrazky/file/12792806077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pethouse.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kizumevusuzam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vako.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/mubamidajug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazdedziecko.pl/_files/Media/file/42980616047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideatity.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11652852903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simsvizag.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file///80062636572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=3d+bedroom+planPDF 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_off0000dd7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD7D 10408 bytes
SHA-256: f9abfb9c9baaa2d4729015cff733230ae0f2295ba298d68fe99dfbc0bb212165
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CCF 19996 bytes
SHA-256: b567c45e1f88936032cebf4c1091ac9d3741ca968ef1b77d56e7bce980e6c1a3