Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70fd66bb76814282…

MALICIOUS

PDF

138.0 KB Created: 2021-06-09 04:22:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 8350b241a53c180c4536d9694d0e92a0 SHA-1: ad3cb5fea708194c06b436c0605632ce9fbdb933 SHA-256: 70fd66bb7681428295a22bd71139aae82cb47758229c9bc52ebac6d518e35cf9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites. These sites appear to host further malicious PDF files, suggesting a multi-stage attack designed to distribute malware or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sami+padal+tamil PDF link annotation
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ba3a34fbc---42850970133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e05aa1ec1f---42529475929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881ca4f1894---xoluzitabubuxusemopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/86107354964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075893f7a924---dupitetimonamosixisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/41672705031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077098d4c65b---24783807178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e99264b67---filugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://welltowork.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fff73ddea00c7de8ea7fc7492b5f68b/3018568329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cck-brno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pividonuzevetojiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4e591648a---pugonuwuxumijufumejeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanmusicfestival.com/userfiles/file/tubosolofunizofomemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abfe9575d19---rutijelojurigifis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/larelaxopimatilafogef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001d294.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D294 4932 bytes
SHA-256: 242d411c7598c8b718008917ac59e2031779354998caaf3d3eecb5f992b9f354
font_01_sfnt_off0001e346.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E346 5832 bytes
SHA-256: ffdc35c648826b9e580157b0fea1c1f4e0cce38dceaec5c415834209acb2a6a3
font_02_sfnt_off0001f5ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F5EF 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 35e5c79bce6215815e4f7a2f663be5c100ea6670cc9cfcf692648769cbe15f00