Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70eaeaeb9586f299…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-09-09 16:20:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a6e2ee0373c61226d1b29c913f844902 SHA-1: 7fa7697ec6b85c91720c7a9a1e823b65f96aa240 SHA-256: 70eaeaeb9586f29989bcbcaa083b05dbd5a49591e2507fbe0d8a9dd813f5e59b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. Heuristics indicate these links are likely compromised CMS uploads and part of a link farm strategy. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=an99+camera+app PDF link annotation
    • https://mudraconsultancy.com/uploads/files/86239161958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://licausi.it/userfiles/files/20898420024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/5268615073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecreator.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59460322169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoolteh.eu/galeria/file/45464003994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161395c32cea86---xesezijezomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cortocircuito.trialpanel.com/images/Upload/files/gimavolukok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipsupply.ru/userfiles/files/vawefakipegewazaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesarrodarte.com/userfiles/file/jukivuwepofaturodeximuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/43840560323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onderdurdu.com/upload/ckfinder/files/rulisazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsonplastic.com/uploads/userfiles/file/jerekitadirirusotewojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htchninc.com/d/files/virasamupiwagez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songod.vn/uploads/image/files/wifivakikeluwojum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vjsj09ipu59jcaqiea28kcr8at/1704246772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.de/userfiles/files/bezubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benetalent.com/upload/files/57663781062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u48v5aid5g1bribhhqsk3p3j97/46467898208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futsalcb.cz/picture/vtextu/file/zedukixalaxirijezaxutowom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sydneystudytour.com/accounting/userfiles/file/mapasekefeponozon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tythb.com/uploadfile/files/73387192649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/kowujowe.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_off0000b6af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6AF 16248 bytes
SHA-256: 8f54cb31fd11d2fa03d2a9bf2fe54ace161f5c20df9fef2b0f33da310646f205
font_01_sfnt_off0000e050.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE050 10160 bytes
SHA-256: 6cf7d37abd852c833e3bf8ff49c8a7badf40a888ed43a95ef4c0fc9b9067beb9
font_02_sfnt_off0000f710.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF710 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1