Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70fdf2580825410a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-07-09 21:36:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 08e28d3832abd380582559979551a95b SHA-1: 80accb112c5aee4d73e768b2d1ff0977caceac24 SHA-256: 70fdf2580825410a0181ac66e99312fe8332e21fcb67df4ca3e8331a387daf1f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://fiscalonline.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/wajuzekilikizusenugifuwa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8d0eb459f---bemijifomabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/namodobaxafuxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f90fcd020---galegamejelivuzos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddmlife.com/ckupload/files/ninitonaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/45376077384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efab84aaa701ca6e8069145f7fad7b93/14265098055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/11440015401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac181a94939---80830842093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae2328d00e3577fc1e9cf3377b950fba/mivepobalitizufizali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/45470327491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optykglowacki.pl/obrazki/files/98191749938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.buildingmalawi.com/images/uploaded/documents/15514767439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e2c79080a232f44422287e4eb268fe4/98226854433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd4f0b0864c8d8fe706713cba2c7426f/56641542735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casabresciani.it/uploads/file/240685729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/sunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/65996960439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/nopunadasidexer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premium-h.info/files/files/35421651096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02b0ee737fa689db1caba7b3d968844e/16165645956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vkbgtkhsmnnv54na1rjbebp7p3/vatometatofugoropotid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac154d0bad3---zedijegum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shreyaghoshal.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/mibisikedexogevijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=3ds+anemone+themesPDF 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_off00010af3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AF3 17964 bytes
SHA-256: 83a5aad90507ba99571c401a3b79e624b90ded7b4995fb8f5e13e6d354ccd7bc
font_01_sfnt_off00013a17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A17 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 11870d8cac8f77fa17cefd192d84fb9b9d7ef49322acb2fbb17e7b989d8a8e8c
font_02_sfnt_off0001514b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1514B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1