Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70f7b4442d890cfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-06-13 18:10:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 519fa815bab9a76c822b7dfc24f9186b SHA-1: 373fdee66356a7415056f951a31274cc6f300ec3 SHA-256: 70f7b4442d890cfcbffec1b86b84fda889386bcbb8498b812511331960d2d427
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a link farm strategy, and the 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' and 'CLAMAV_DETECTION' firings confirm its malicious nature. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to download content, potentially malware, under the guise of legitimate downloads like 'age calculator apk download'. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=age+calculator+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/tanezisunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210602180558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/72052015983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/vukidepunasod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff0a1662ee---42504805027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ce7a4310e---jubilodutimusagivezegus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/82161502319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9357cabbad82eb5be231a7b2867d90c9/34584246339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beliangka.com/contents//files/12066190317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaatlantida.com/userfiles/file/%5C/3602602509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pergamine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71358414265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rekalibracija.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7032547e24d927ecb71600f58a0c041/fusiguxizamorirati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091d4d9b87ca---vozirof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8fcf8338a8---sewoguxoseleniwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB57 5040 bytes
SHA-256: 3a390daa76596a3df14b0bd385bd6663f214fcf53c85bea4a1faa155ab86430d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fca0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCA0 11300 bytes
SHA-256: 118c0e0e001179894a7c4b3ac687b8229381b8288079f30b1ebd8cfd2006fafc
font_02_sfnt_off0001238e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1238E 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 5bfda07072dd2e1b0df7f1680a75ba616774ec51e1a09c257f000ba239241e1c
font_03_sfnt_off0001388a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1388A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361