Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a70103e9c7c48224…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-10-08 13:05:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 0893df31dfe9af311afbb36d5be7fe19 SHA-1: b63087e6b2fb60179cb819f196b73d44e14e9c23 SHA-256: a70103e9c7c48224edf7401f6c6e26c127c84274500e722092dae935c175a006
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+a+green+screen+video+on+iphone PDF link annotation
    • http://bon-mar.com/fck_user_files/file/teferesajino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuwuxenojuwuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aostavet.it/userfiles/files/68572226252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samwha.com/upload/userfiles/file/98073779474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rem-stroymont.ru/img/file/24987197033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamap.in/ci/userfiles/files/73975928272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revize-elektro.info/UserFiles/File/nowose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee7df0244e8df1fe4fd708c2c6906dee/65131429796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildungrice.com/fileupload/fckeditor/file/setedigubage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dprofi.net/images/uploads/file/debunoximatogebupela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615951a0d73bf---48973041337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615a72a4d291b---5595248842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-poligrafic.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79892070461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10kshot.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/516954774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc580.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905095159447530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giga-tronics.com/userfiles/files/22908402895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/phi37u2tfigckafqk174c0t9ua/4499729831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sgp8qjb9dqoih9919glogpbic2/musaluzot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heatandgas.com/EditorImages/file/63766063234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fc6f3ecd94---2683576722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolekkoyum.com/admin/UserFiles/file/131143336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarclab.eu/userfiles/files/rajet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a0487ba2d173f5257f3c816cec2ed4a/67019229238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuongkhopbadinh.vn/images/files/wekajitelopusefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elementyzlaczne.pl/media/file/vorugebafuwevuxapebilowow.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_off0000e06d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE06D 17800 bytes
SHA-256: beb493bfbbe20e41d6d51e412844c56fc95e5615812b1b405f10c67661bd5009
font_01_sfnt_off00010ebe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EBE 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 2b84a6887075318b77818b7e3e5d8ab8725263856aa78943d51f332dd2adf39e
font_02_sfnt_off00012872.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12872 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1