Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70dc3c282d02d1f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-08-21 04:48:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 01a4bfd6707028b0f46e3ac1d49dd443 SHA-1: b771d0df4b20b1c1ab2df095b395b6f1dc7902f0 SHA-256: 70dc3c282d02d1f49dfd15f94b334991c98eaa58bacf28584c2cfe4e9a0888fb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier with high confidence. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely leveraging spearphishing attachments as the initial access vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=azar+grammar+understanding+and+using+english+fourth+edition.pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0a96d10ad---71812580753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210521125157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthanhtam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/77140139019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuadepthanglong.com/images/ckeditor/files/sazitubuwidovejileli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/45348204542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/54444086448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naphogacomposite.com/upload/files/45546768420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://red-adlay.com/upload/files/fiwerifopubofavipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wccflooring.com/userfiles/files/90388787669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/inq1agieg4s6kiuhmc4b7ntaoh/segevawurogazase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e46amun7rh0m4u2fnpemu0skq6/73319283767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38ee0c36afbed0906edfec1daf1c8afa/ritotudonuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g2nq5e49c7baak9lurmo0e9t65/82958293812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcmheavyequipment.com/admin/images/file/bezirabezidurunil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matonaklawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/45828374832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d0623fmodbp60chgauh8dq9mc/retarajujovunozeguxezak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/40610725355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanilkwanla.com/uploads/files/32282366260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4cb40f145c---difepiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608573cbb45a2---75166525321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjpexport.com/files/73122011056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7796545f7---22010693098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1r0g486fckedqv5l1jpso8lga4/20051005960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afdaf82e2b57811f8ebcc213a6c58470/14008127525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b9b75dda0---lemunirawowovu.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_off0000e57f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE57F 17256 bytes
SHA-256: ae04501ad0d2b29efaea44b9b288f50a5b21dfe9cb720ca133273ad6a4fa3ff0
font_01_sfnt_off00011299.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11299 11152 bytes
SHA-256: b5070d2e5a5f598d24b813000474bb9a4333660b30eb91d584c1bed0257f4a90
font_02_sfnt_off00012c52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C52 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1