Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a706995f54c0a962…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-08-27 21:16:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 7ef923384adb2fce692df16a0cac0e83 SHA-1: ceec1c8b80d81200057847d838f6587f5d230288 SHA-256: a706995f54c0a9625b3808462890bac48d7f19b2dc539379006be108b0d647a7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not fully analyzed due to obfuscation, indicates potential for further malicious actions such as downloading second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=streaming+film+never+back+down+2 PDF link annotation
    • https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b99c577ba6a5ac44f0ecd8bf78b1267c/71249492307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0776f12ff429533becd4a68ef8af6cf/viradig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/18199998163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurek-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/2657919154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bracyfamilyreunion.com/clients/c/c2/c2db1a97f769835965582c74015c7782/File/29273775054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://z87992961.com/upload/files/20210718103343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/275a7b5b69007076d8f609d24eb2696f/18983207337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-fasteners.eu/media/file/22862886911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40410378294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/rexepaxitoselutojatude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaika.in/images/documents/files/kukonidunixibimipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5e403f010a---jubofiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/denufesizujugitakigite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nabsangram.com/userfiles/file/kimapotukexuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ea4872dc6c12571499fe481a333decf/2343305755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bm-shower.com/userfiles/files/33265850478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pivotal-technologies.com/userfiles/file/getevawukegegeveloto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac27cfab9a1---57602645911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/vamixugogafupaximefaguna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.eus/files/galeria/files/56076249859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workcoop.org/fckeditor/userimages/file/20210728111702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/borifuwolemoxofuged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btc-ltd.com/upload/file/89017749601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/241318f110a1ca35fcca18d5f7842858/30552622777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/wadoxigefifixivobufurele.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_off0000ee36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE36 11228 bytes
SHA-256: c308edd835c55fd8687ad9bb65d8c0ec8422e78eed4795e11faf603c21d58886
font_01_sfnt_off00010870.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10870 18004 bytes
SHA-256: 36a5e801ae7159455b1fe8dd9559c1cd0c85a5b783f31d7887fc58e97775953c
font_02_sfnt_off00013730.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13730 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1