Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b070e3b3a6d3d20a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-06-13 10:47:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2b71db783e7e62af25a857311acc8734 SHA-1: 6029cd98b211ff55844997e2ff8c67219e238592 SHA-256: b070e3b3a6d3d20ab2d09830c8302940c2e6bb669b30f884d5cf56d3417132a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised websites, likely to facilitate phishing attacks or distribute further malware. The presence of external URI links and compromised CMS upload storage links indicates a clear intent to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=other+father+song+piano+sheet+music PDF link annotation
    • http://ugrctrani.it/userfiles/files/raviduzisakutejasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyadvisersaustralia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37a972a3e28dfe290daff399b511be0c/bagopepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/572908fc73b3f3c285b254350061ca7b/79256199043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saokienviet.com/uploads/image/files/sitezumago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075597b744dd---79020122446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086870e0a643---30176275405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p1tq3dngqao8cfa0hi2703v60m/405425054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluekeydigital.com/images/pic/file/20989721882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.eu/userfiles/file/75954608204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.net/contents//files/zamal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7345443800---batazagixusij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/73191435670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/emmhpgnna2ff84pdut93hapqca/38752565503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87c516bd491d7ec6b419f43c7e07da49/89439231911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a02abb3dad---87205959956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0nureo3v1sk35r7n3mk32r4k13/zepureminaruxugudikeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/1156159528608abb4168fd2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC67 5424 bytes
SHA-256: 5d546b6bc81ce124f819ad9ca7e7de1556c37744a3a3cc02e2c08f3803292fca
font_01_sfnt_off0000feb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEB6 10552 bytes
SHA-256: fbe5e71214e1f48fc61c8fdaf2d0774983bce29bb7906b2e802c4da0dddcbc88