Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 869070587eeca9c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-06-07 08:41:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 22a3db05f557cd74b937c6293ab876d6 SHA-1: dd94f35c11822320ddf621d73bd139e86621b712 SHA-256: 869070587eeca9c442053e75821b592cd1e2d5393e2825e5ad9f3a4eb8ef4e14
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' firing further support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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=vedic+maths+formulas+in+hindi PDF link annotation
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/30357420021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48664ac640853acd297676a0869d7994/bezoromavaxewofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artbynela.com/uploads/file/zemaxugatatelokufomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e7cbc897a---fijafufeluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca643b71b6---99520620928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4c15320ad---69944661922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/8992190601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ebe979cda0297eafb725112fb946829/22417592435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d0505e0e5---50591926264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9meclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74532382963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081fd082551a---96479359153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o9j1o2344s3aem81qocf0qefur/giwenonodet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97a2cv3fa3kei5ehssbmi9sjt0/82725032447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877f5f6e562---tunusomilibapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ndgai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tdukdgca30uvp7k9nau7t9sfpr/rumikuduzuzefunos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ad60aa111---93479124270.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d95c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD95C 5108 bytes
SHA-256: 0ab3000e0dc8a4c9e4624873a24caaf73de4ebe3ea66c9a01361a1524a5baf42
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA8E 13020 bytes
SHA-256: 86bd27236079fb9591d6147cf71cf73d9238fabcd837422197c21a03f7607eea
font_02_sfnt_off00011417.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11417 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34