Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a70d452905122be3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 20:50:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6c81dbba25880635678781c2808caa69 SHA-1: 9f071807d891d5fcd008d57084278d762460114a SHA-256: a70d452905122be324426fe6943300b0d3b07b89c841cbaaddce262e42d6f8ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, detecting it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://ihotel2b.com/upfiles/editor/files/tojebilapajuga.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f8d409ab19---35827322090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83d3b972b9efa4ceb2c5414bc4b01c8c/29750065202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12dgpkkit35jnf88ejb93c8qh5/vegoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toananhmedical.com/uploads/files/gikolujazopabapopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artlabjo.com/userfiles/file/nikikelib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a758c1ce96e---50912719995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ra56od125cj3irj27smnju59k/92152346796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab6bf47e0a7---forunalobozad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxeina.com/userfiles/files/32147808821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61ccff0fca5f7c94d072473c5564a1f3/joborebozujejemasaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/75747115530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d11a0bff4---35338329079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b6aeb31b3683e8c8c11888fb4e446b4/49917628367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e335d7f4a9---boboxonadoxopiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortemadera.com/wysiwygfiles/file/78749831218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0fa05d524---67604063943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mrrphkcktdtvek3jgg4593aakb/wugefuxigiredimulunaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bef5c54b9da---40248968654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://munord.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb8e6de543af30b7b205b506151279e2/37036998648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d35eeac2b2c63efd9ac9be0a91dd91b/nixowuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmkaudit.sk/101/upload/file/57044408110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8037a91e40e210c0f8c5fa9da920a86a/55915638072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=tolerate+nonsense+meaningPDF 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_off00010b21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B21 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 09e996cff9259b7b4a00031cb18e0bd654ea137a35b1b2f3df9c77efa5acb62a
font_01_sfnt_off000122b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013ac7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AC7 17352 bytes
SHA-256: 47e9f8336bce57cfa4f0a9f737c51f7268873f5e8b3b56869a33a069930e5e0b