Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70f794fea9c8efe7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 17:09:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 0229530b7877383bf97dbe283fd3dcdc SHA-1: f5001885e1d533e1e6e01f7182f78e6f81a1363c SHA-256: 70f794fea9c8efe7ee382e584b88c20b3a657d93e2ee79f31d8f782eb6374440
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. This suggests the PDF is likely used to distribute further malicious content or for SEO spam, rather than containing a direct exploit.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://tongchangkj.com/uploadfile/file///2021091101424891.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://camphacement.vn/upload/files/56043114477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wamaeassociates.com/images/uploads/originals/file/44383998650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pixel-pro.ru/upload/file/88447766015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161371f28827be---zezekowabimobizavajugunos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25d0bcf005ed25231873a261403a5a34/murofotilixate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijpdua.com/contents/files/posujovemimewujiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varbackaforskola.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95852163632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioiulianella.it/userfiles/files/15869340466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161307e607c6d5---jesarivasuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viprealestatebrokers.com/userfiles/files/19577418306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giasuthienphuc.com/Images_upload/files/wodade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westfallassociates.com/documents/file/tatolanobuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.de/userfiles/file/15788355071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/gizerajiselol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/widigisurovinuzujirumogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eecpowerindia.com/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36150917240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npxbyy.com/wang3_3_10_27/Upload/Upload/file/2021941610389516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konsultacjenaukowe.eu/Upload/file/15064026694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sskundal.com/userfiles/file/97147663329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creaorganization.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/42823736669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikolsbeauty.com/webroot/f/uploads/file/dutuvonuroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=game+changers+production+companyPDF 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_off00011291.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11291 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 7adaf287d73f6c019ca07544ce83d1775b9e879567b31f8d4389a246b1a303cc
font_01_sfnt_off00012c5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C5B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001446d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1446D 18700 bytes
SHA-256: ae71936b5234e543d4ef066c09997cbc06fa05bb3e6e46afda73ef5bc8c074b2