Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d70438ffe866472c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.5 KB Created: 2021-10-19 22:16:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 1358346d3002b7f9455e2a6b9151efd0 SHA-1: e20fc0d15591081a88b320dc6d4900e60bbd95b3 SHA-256: d70438ffe866472c3d4e0e3d3992ae946b2910ed3bf77780e08a12de8538ef73
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a pattern of hosting malicious links within the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9869

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://lbk-ingatlan.hu/uploads/file/dozuwafinelojenir.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alfavs.eu/userfiles/file/giwaxazotixewanopeluxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macro-e.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/pimabejokaxaxafexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listapp.in/ci/userfiles/files/99919857299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614afc0b777f0---nosog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16160a3d408334---94985570337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifimmo.lu/userfiles/files/saleteduwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proetcontra.hu/userfiles/file/zovixepofelijaxojojoxumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theseadiaries.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gujejubawajura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodluckfishing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27014044556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/91316157665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orangerun.re/photo/files/fikosovopuval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161464b84889fd---89348342708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenphat.com/public/default/ckeditor/files/fokawomiluzulukosixefapuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnigakgdsg.friendship-match.com/upload/files/dazuweba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dafangtour.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/fidonenupudedubux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k2plusinterior.com/userfiles/muzagezukuretixowokazupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipcmanpower.com/admin/style/images/userfiles/file/vikiwinupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149a419164ee---38400408939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apicn.net/upload/files/77775933485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615e4a3f834b4---kakaliniribigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentbucharest.net/images/userfiles/35533189910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalleasingny.com/admin/images/file/54570769065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5uempat.com/contents/files/vagajawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oomewatersport.nl/upload/files/runavemivojopowaxorin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsanaq.com/upload/file/211016211959902627hthnrc0omr0v.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdsliquorlocker.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/tarodixotasasawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/u-9XGpgKpwY/uplcv?utm_term=download+film+habibie+ainun+2+full+movie+indonesia+lk21PDF link annotation
    • https://www.posluh.hr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20576720335.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_off00014bad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BAD 22592 bytes
SHA-256: e0fbf1d7a784140eb7aeaa2603debae71b0478ef4d41668494c389c7826c677a
font_01_sfnt_off000186b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x186B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00019ec4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19EC4 17992 bytes
SHA-256: 99f5a5b0a3a57ec0cf49e60473f1697719ede7e9cad3880d29e137bcbc309c1f