Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8070a505c3f7df2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 18:25:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 519fcac149bdc20a7c3be43b1118b6e1 SHA-1: 64d403eeac069bcd80f3619ac7871901fb3c0ba7 SHA-256: 8070a505c3f7df2ef5ba6224921b95ebe35aae6ac09b7fdf3d8d49df1fb5dfa3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to exploit users by directing them to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://cudicio.it/images/file/33779607385.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943ead4b2b0---wowakami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjandjunemillerfarm.com/clients/75830/File/gonixefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/36521251046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://currycornersugarland.com/admin/images/file/98643561383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2iiovojin7p3gf97j6g27jf5a/dokomasexasomevosonuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f71662a8ae4---zitegunatifojogelagifet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/25449020035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonschickenfremont.com/uploads/files/zebivot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116b5f9cc3d8---37947369646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leadershipcareer.kr/fckeditor/_upload/file/safavuxoputafujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idrogastermoclima.it/Utentifile/FCKPage/file/xezemalamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peilimineko.com/userfiles/file/48707401331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-kayros.com/userfiles/file/11143707818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haysalon.com/public_html/userfiles/file/watemakim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2711c5f218---busamiweref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/459e84cf99b40a6b25a68a420059e409/55892250956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp72.com/clients/7/7b/7b902bee17765b19ebdde6030f24742d/File/49331448794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bordahusfeldolgozo.hu/editor_up/jegugugulowebowof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/82954471424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vejuxuxudavabojakikekes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vvpuavii3lnbjf5khp2en6h57a/ladasuwivokilorogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://royal-art.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/wufozagepirozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/virupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harryreichert.de/uploaded_pics/News/file/58204489139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=graphic+design+tutorial+book+pdfPDF 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_off0000f843.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF843 18200 bytes
SHA-256: 9299dbe910d52fd822368fca9cc72607255216a5a80b9401f587138a50efe120
font_01_sfnt_off000126c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126C1 11268 bytes
SHA-256: 9aa1685b967c4fc7076eaa0c91acdfff5493990aba0c2808eea13979f0d24505
font_02_sfnt_off000140bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1