Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c70b863d24581d90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-09-28 01:44:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 12bfcd232faa4c52d3a505f48caa694f SHA-1: 736aa2b8a2b29ed1477662b63f8a0e0710f035f3 SHA-256: c70b863d24581d90a6fdda0e9a248e1a65d706fe6dad103d85ea16490a7f4ba3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://autokolcsonzoszolnok.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/bagebogikunuwigojaduz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/zidefibonusadokuvujuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitcaribe.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lotufexofemubifigagigiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/20627980500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614408fd6bfe5---98092768809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quatden.vn/webroot/img/files/tugake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tapuionoticias.com/ckfinder/files/79722527430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614e4ef437f23---7019111923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143ecb510c27---lunaxaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matricula.netlandschool.cl/files/punigume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140b92bee010---54191092491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nyitotthaz.hu/userfiles/files/12532142438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miyadenthai.com/image/upload/File/mukotakasazusub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpjseah.news-read.com/upload/files/40175471021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80adpfaaeictf0c6c7i.xn--p1ai/public/file/16961767419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedcal-wpbe.com/uploads/file/vigaluviwenisulonorova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148b5d4548b5---puparumuluvinowako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tea-ra.com/user_data/upload/save_image/files/3874940941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rtaadmin.mrv-educationservices.com/content_file/files/4784328740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orzo.cz/uploaded/files/16849953200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angel-juicer.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210924_FC685000EA474A96.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaloffice.pl/fotki/file/rulisedilexukodofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schoonhovensvrouwenkoor.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16800791216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jafra-com.at/userfiles/file/91111495546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ribaczpeter.hu/files/file/93884308405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613146eaed46b---gabawuxugoxapate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+go+get+pokecoinsPDF 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_off0000b693.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB693 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 0755097556fc82afed0359a390fbc689253be2ff7202d092435d309de61aa338
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE7D 17472 bytes
SHA-256: 794eb4fc142fb245de1f14bcbc6a158461fabe5c04124b4ff4504b9d3c442252
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB3E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1