Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b70c37adf6af533e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 09:47:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 5e86389e6e5ea0d2e986bc5bb403da59 SHA-1: a220d523f070a08a28ff9e81285dd2b630bba793 SHA-256: b70c37adf6af533eb820ae5614cab5c6616a70aebd505ebbb6cef0b0713e8cc2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://chatfieldfarms101.com/userimages/wodinireripi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b940062bbd780c956f9b25b7e8ff833/43365879162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/rapavepupagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac18fcc6eb7---juvomanafabumugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ildiko-szepsegszalon.hu/userfiles/file/42384175180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bff1cb1050---93176063313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennedy-jackson.com/clients/f/f7/f78508644b517540cdb1549d93860f53/File/77527871606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/doniwigoxolot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bv1ag07pp6spi8ttq44ave995/13202129483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.com/userfiles/file/42782105094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a56e18709d2---rarerowusimiwuxodejot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/ruwopaxepuvafeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813c156c2f9---36082977053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iece.in/userfiles/file/wazosezituvesugevilomoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3ddb6459de---93044916756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6c748050cb---girivalofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19396203130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1268b3lc7iqi23alj5kljh812e/zipomapakonut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k9t1nipm10metuvsdt9vnpeqb4/gidefawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kidavirilujiwefapalarusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikidi.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/68226573049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853c8735df0---74835225839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceramkgres.ru/userfiles/file/wokid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=d.el.ed+501+book+pdfPDF 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_off0000db72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB72 20312 bytes
SHA-256: a2f35e06b10f49fb76b105b1645745bae69a964591c88eb856fb609c67a96b4d
font_01_sfnt_off000111c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111C5 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 5a83595c3c78569413f20483af4bee89ad8b2b2b8de6bac61b31c52f15017b4e
font_02_sfnt_off0001292a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1292A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1