Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 970bd8786dba2b56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-07-24 09:03:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 314390bf06b32e8d6bbbc2969be14984 SHA-1: f7648dedcd6d49840c65eaa3fc82ac69e480108d SHA-256: 970bd8786dba2b56fe1f621944986b380344a565dfc4741021f2c58af0799077
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to WordPress upload directories on various domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious document used as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b311639711b---31431781492.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rbijikvl0hrlfggugsek7dgbid/lodojivaximinimaxebixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/vemuwepadeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/juvetexesugubupagiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/fenur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/5733077422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfccdb38905---jojufazizusetopumonuvisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad08b721df1d0441fe71adb4dba32f63/gonepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbc017d35d8ba1832d62884d24721e1c/pufigezuzomelelirojakege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gloriouz.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15665908346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2709e7b28d76d0586a0f40194fd16d09/vominuzazibikodetugonofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a039880db57b7e80d3e2a94310db8395/34546939137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benedictinoselrosal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19154505190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c71c5fab840---wevurebilijesegotano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckattorneys.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bokekezeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2866e7f49---53836097165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geniodelweb.com/file/zumedativogamarakowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f985bfb51---37897376251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atbusmf473rkudtb17tannd3c2/80968771805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assistance.uz/images/shared/file/vekepodepudigifoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1f138d8ad---wuwibamugudixawefeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd51530e8c---mumeporuwujuraro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=los+juegos+del+hambre+sinsajo+parte+2+pelicula+completaPDF 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_off0000f617.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF617 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E29 18764 bytes
SHA-256: 2396c124e4eab0cde6510ba91524b8a83f695039a02417bded96bd40c08db9fe
font_02_sfnt_off00013dec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DEC 11408 bytes
SHA-256: b932653f75f3d96edc332a905931d6d2e449abc486d546c1e089f9236810d973