Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d70880c615d1526e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:01:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: eea6dfc2a666d400158592415af35129 SHA-1: e58221ff0f9ea2a685006a3b5b5c768a4cf8e62b SHA-256: d70880c615d1526e208338af6e888dd5903ded1dd729cf7b8de00e0c4a3a2252
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, utilizing an image-based design with clickable action triggers to redirect users to external links. The presence of numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 69 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/neas7hbs8otp63895kbf4jof0l/72360046530.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://abogadosaccidentealicante.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/52629509216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhanh.com/files/55603608600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmnetwork.net/uploadEditor/files/zosutifevodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d379cb84f---favakiwora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c99a0ac4f2---noruva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960ihs.com/clients/e/e0/e0b58928a48036c9af8d6cfc9cffdd99/File/86632782085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8c22be06a---21642886981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valathors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/terevexujemupexuvab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esterkins.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24542181383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/14223327856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73252930990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dohertylaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xovex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherriestattoo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58225451127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/lavivexugawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e325d818da---9600422766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/1474670842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izdo.org/img/userfiles/files/demalukenalolupefogepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e16012290---gisujidobelorexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/vujofojifuvaxofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c208d28013f---jewuvosumasexobanikamoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766259cc69c---gewojumasivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defaico.com/d/files/46947777416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sensiblemachines.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/80340950185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=northstar+hot+pressure+washer+manualPDF 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_off0000b43d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB43D 10588 bytes
SHA-256: a896cc505812a8fc51932a1a99d5e51785c3cb7f428ad43b894ef0de8cb0f7a0
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC53 14148 bytes
SHA-256: 726ed91287b32bd54475911118be2d5fa191916c089c9ba6919a49765a1420d7
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF04 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1