Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a704743db2aa8ec8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 06:28:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: dc6b2df4159bdc3ede511dbd581d6850 SHA-1: e0e3c7543898f5a7f7dfddf343ebce33bf537e84 SHA-256: a704743db2aa8ec844f24ffb382e18c82bd40311fc21180a19e8d6cea4bf48c3
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 domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data, suggesting the primary malicious function is the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ergonomics+at+workplace+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://tentauto23.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8409983449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95k0bqddv3iu1n05fiq2clcmv4/56237534064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smpnuenen.nl/images/files/52617378308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuuts.mn/uploads/assets/24337537175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/komul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/811b59c12fefe3e1a1f8fb24a678d366/43715398782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awkontrakt.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vekovop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spvi.cn/filespath/files/20210811030646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elfuklid.cz/foto/Image/file/99409264610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hgvc3v26h3vih7ukrvk16ehfvr/rozuvatuvarap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saunadlaciebie.pl/userfiles/file/diruri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d265eddfee---67617379865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blugarden.eu/file/wolenexoromakizamiwud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aurorabersinar2.com/contents//files/juwojupatogufexirizuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5c5c0caa96---dipojibuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanchanaspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31685223161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d63c0f8e7a8eef2fb261b77f29691cb/gurisiwifidusofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2dfce37c149ca2eb6306e46bf921584/kuketekibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097074556f4d---57899422081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/79437813041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa90f6cb97b---nulevivapijagirozuguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b208b00020---bewovewer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsbulletsandbrass.com/userfiles/files/vujukeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a8a50049ca59ca13fdc896021776227/kepupuledim.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_off0000d659.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD659 17104 bytes
SHA-256: 7b7ed973a36a42ee5bef3cc48fb9c51a94cf9949c540ef1660d0df30e654b3d2
font_01_sfnt_off00010265.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10265 11124 bytes
SHA-256: cdea2a45760a7d1ca89c96de7fa4823c418c3c45331435ff9a842826b9df97d4
font_02_sfnt_off00011c2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1