Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 870ef5cc6eb8a23b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-23 03:48:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6afe9ec6c2b1ca751b422a470d0f983d SHA-1: 9afd4a8e09713850d92997b7724643e8426abd0e SHA-256: 870ef5cc6eb8a23be71ea515e60510a0a80c3f379b83306a42a9e6650dc08860
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a phishing lure or a distribution point for further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings point to a phishing or link-farming attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hide+and+seek+among+us+online PDF link annotation
    • https://ringid.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nodowepiriximatukivemeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medius.sk/userfiles/file/xuwututaxulupudejumupema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161481d009ee48---lifevitememobewuwuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://el-tall.pl/pics/file/76880526293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoradiator.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/nemexawuvaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wevudedel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harmonie-avion.fr/actualite/files/dokojaxezapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rassadaspb.com/new/files/file/63587870318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ouhkpthaa.org/userfiles/29343706967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/84711626255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac15292789---ravope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/26658017007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/70498807671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://year-c.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-2/20210902022204192107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotostudiovaccari.it/userfiles/files/nakovofutefimezuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130724ad73b1---97152722774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narnivet.com/userfiles/files/gitama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cecprint.com/images/file/76535773180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36682dd7f99ba873e6eb145b9a9b67d8/kapiwavuginu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/15424972558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanedantoptan.com/upload/files/lekuzowoderasitazoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.delaneyllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77497547357.pdfIn 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://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_off0000b25d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB25D 15680 bytes
SHA-256: ad7f670449a307cd5ec437e6fed19ac3616c0111e3510bb16842d61615244851
font_01_sfnt_off0000daa9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAA9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C0 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 5c9316551dddea0a1c1903565f047ee9a7fb9a3f722c84535c8ce43e6227a629