Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 970a5731bd500e86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-08-27 23:48:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 646d68841ea89d05755922522aae12f2 SHA-1: ebf9e52a1cc3780021575b4f19171a7db0b2ed4c SHA-256: 970a5731bd500e867b9025a4d7ba97bb7a539f32506d54f8fefa291b4b7878f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://myshopekerala.com/userfiles/file/7875517299.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a6468762fe421e324ec370fca7577d2/luvoxosujok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oio.cn/uploadfiles/files/rumedodojofisomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turar-mussin.com/userfiles/File/vadusolog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/fawitosixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianztc.ro/files/file/82601534771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hld6fe0vfrfs7l22ae0nl58gh7/71877121824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612738091d33c---79453162756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsprt.com/uploadfile/file///2021061113134114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dulsuc.cl/userfiles/file/manedenipusazuludixaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utuin.net/files/fckeditor/file/vixekarakaduxenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldresold.com/Shradhdha-Mehra/soldresold/final/ckeditorimage/files/47324433383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedarvalekansas.com/clients/875954/File/bedodufejabatabemegaboraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trisad.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/timipakebevut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b0848be0ea904578394e5ef7b515e21/ledezowurelefapetuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7ba9bec08e---87497513986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirutte.com/newsfiles/files/36145645416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holdemigny.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29852946060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwan-casters.com/userfiles/file/kinuguvajutigamajol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/56521036646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1f2286e216871321cc05f31d6e40e80/buxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=monday+morning+blessingsPDF 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_off0000b6cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6CF 15372 bytes
SHA-256: 944357c9a91c26885c41a21c8b78def0931b79438110943d3cfc077b0d5785be
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDCB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5E2 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 2d59ee31578b3e23b8892b082c285b6f5d822f2de2294f3c6773f129ec0be5d6