Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e70a2a7e093fa2b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-07-05 13:02:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f757b1e9f9d79027f95a7884f43be954 SHA-1: d1a535e5d7b97c9a0eb87a15a99185fb28d02a76 SHA-256: e70a2a7e093fa2b7671bb1f25f91863a75bf923f4a710653d8ef623dabe4a472
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL findings are sufficient to classify this as a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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
  • 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 https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770eee72db9---18535143485.pdf
    • https://hyosungulf.com/uploads/file/65185636156.pdf
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73df6ff9452767546fa0dc6ca0503794/83338578018.pdf
    • http://geo-equipe.it/userfiles/files/tilotazunatolapino.pdf
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8238d54211---12994933566.pdf
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/259f9a0e8608f54ce42a676f0142a1b8/bagebaluleziwebeva.pdf
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2facaf69f87466ff1a41fdece8a73a8/82680548048.pdf
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f9b368c530---64853539620.pdf
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nl0mv046qmlfqd4e0dris0s9dg/14248652193.pdf
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqd9ckehe6aepm2l08jtltu9r1/82343320123.pdf
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a81b8b57c---11352648867.pdf
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202105/file/69676458113.pdf
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f51a0d4da3---bowisirawidudok.pdf
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4299017764cf0b88df83563a6e4cb2c8/guvulo.pdf
    • https://baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/xejiwiba.pdf
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbd82113f5a---61977690484.pdf
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097bbb26eab7---18705360476.pdf
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826990dccc5---lewikatitegamitob.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0b1416beaf---divuvene.pdf
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746fdb99654---47494889191.pdf
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/bejodovuzugalotip.pdf
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071684ae0b7c---vigoj.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=choice+hotels+employee+discount
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c2e8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2E8 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dafa.bin
6b8c80381b77c9940f5e85958c39f704a3a40c795bab031747a83f2fdcbd5463
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAFA 16148 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000104a2.bin
21a3cdc9d77e8ae5838d7df9ceb1f19cd4cd434e691ee5aa3b828648c68fe93b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A2 10760 bytes