Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c270d953707f6738…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:02:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 47784958ef2df721c59262556d6b507c SHA-1: e759219d679e823e0d98f1a0475d09b334a3f52b SHA-256: c270d953707f6738398c7c203b84fd3e8b082695cb9d019f7b5efa809ebbcb44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The file's structure and embedded URLs align with a link farm attack pattern designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ngh%E1%BB%8B+quy%E1%BA%BFt+trung+%C6%B0%C6%A1ng+4+kh%C3%B3a+12+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.apollopowersystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d70dea715e57cda4c57fa8b47bcbd7b3/juguzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/rujotojimusikafigafelide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j2mkamvu2c2h88m8mgmm25apbl/wolorewevavujejiluvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontech.vn/images/ckeditor/files/68624543229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607204575fefb---voxukodoruvanik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orsini-blasioli.it/userfiles/files/51641169479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15fcdfc733a724b31ef58a6d90b5d193/5951840977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bollywoodsalonskokie.com/admin/images/file/duzekuwizikaminagovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/porifajixirijowinifowilat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursac.net/userfiles/file/zovatupuwet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnyras.lt/Files/file/sixagunogoxegezapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-champagne.com/blog_images/blog_/file/25450081595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d7c500e7617782cc39fa81116953455/jatok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9f7a9e624---firow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/zisorer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/bitad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-17/20210517050946699153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videofilm-tv.ru/content/File/34979392238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphanaturehk.com/userfiles/file/setivukatetar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9a8246381---60983098077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekachaiguitarist.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pevikiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/54486909973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propertiproperty.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/luwixubabazep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://all-stage-meditation.tw/uploads/files/60ee7947d2130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/fikelurag.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_off0000ee09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE09 11732 bytes
SHA-256: dc2b6efb581b2471272c45a3802030e0a818d8bf0a5612c5e6dd83eaf1f88720
font_01_sfnt_off000108f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108F3 28040 bytes
SHA-256: e9cae68ad3aba30302563d3e527b4a07f95417ce2d5e414b319cfe5768878edb
font_02_sfnt_off00013f6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1