Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 970bdb048a097e75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-07-07 05:15:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: adce4ccf3907d42466316379dce9fede SHA-1: f10361a52643b05c6962259a2fe1ca68f917bafd SHA-256: 970bdb048a097e75bcc48d3e5159b14abd1eb70bf91fea829d62de7f4c0428d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its specific purpose beyond the heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/fonenopivu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609edf2a3980b---wovovumuxusinejotopafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e218c2b0bd---8826613914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehreganimaging.ir/images/upload/files/tilufoxubarofawaxete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/864c02268acea0b280d1592a7dfe51fa/12380544462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f3690381b9ea96de074bad05c2f80dd/56230506037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/7011853473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b9aef0b65---ginuzanobagig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c59883c368d---28401141557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2c14dd559a019ec2689298cb170d483/64297815337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f228c04323e765e27102fdaccf12ad5/96305203011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqf5ug9n191ma0pimetbrieu14/43277036889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31b09d7774d07f80ca6e2a5de6e3c59a/ronaxiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084fcfd2ecb2---guzadasirugezabad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d5bdb13a7a---41063188770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodymindspiritconnection.org/clients/5/53/53f1eac0d8ee32431a47b4e1af774f29/File/78499647767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/lituwekoxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160911b65b0934---29260353047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c27f4f9f363---xerabezedobasamojixowefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=q+and+ansPDF 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_off0000e0b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8C6 17292 bytes
SHA-256: 2d40d6ed91cabb8fb1c754f7e99608e16774b6cbd12b3e7ac79d2c317b8cd232
font_02_sfnt_off0001263e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1263E 9712 bytes
SHA-256: afae8a7a49cd1d05a91bfc21ff16de03b80e204a81fa309b3150f1792b001dab

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