Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb70f7ad957b279d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 02:50:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 54ba2554679064f0266ec4af584ef99c SHA-1: 89ff3f5a772ab2baa159d014eb8ea6d5948fa378 SHA-256: bb70f7ad957b279d2c9ebf4444e30ffa59d970fc27515522e5a7625d18f1768c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates redirection to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://aviatechinform.ru/sadm_files/57980000483.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://reanda.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210905003631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxbotanika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vawaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunriverps.com/data/editor/file/fuzamokamud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisnismedsos.com/userfiles/file/kuzafasilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tao-ssct.org/data/upload/file/befedorub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinieurope.com/userfiles/files/pixowukiridoravor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabinet-blin.fr/ressource/site-image/files/bejireribijowakemaseme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msiutilities.net/documents/sobinavimusaloluziwibir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twgo8.com/uploads/base/files/202109110444534406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://air-separation-supplier.com/d/files/99739924819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cde6586167---vulagetixij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partroyfuneralhome.com/partroy/assets/file/24790746834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakesushilakehavasu.com/uploads/files/mezugubukewasivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qataminational.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/bugelozom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lechioutdoor.com/userfiles/file/99522792716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiwavn.com/uploads/image/files/91780101064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://21cedu.com/pds/userfiles/files/mufeligigejidekipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.educationsexuelle-ecole.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zupomutob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.in/userfiles/file/39895568510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408bed831eb---nuxepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134a50e5d048---82573068807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=an+inspector+calls+pdf+freePDF 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_off0000fcf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCF6 19200 bytes
SHA-256: 88f013752a25c5911ab4fceddb6c8af2ab004593c3a1464c2e6aee1631268d2c
font_01_sfnt_off00012ed7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ED7 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 2a09cad231500e24fde64b29527217803ef7e2c449877e96d7b52dfdab3cb590
font_02_sfnt_off00014726.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14726 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1