Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e70bdedb3c906497…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-23 18:36:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 29583e3a7269cc73dc7dda6d238d131e SHA-1: 5e443f379e7b70cc584d4ce7aa9a88dfaa4593ed SHA-256: e70bdedb3c906497da8cb81523dedce0ec418bfb2716220f0460e62be50583c1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to exploiting vulnerabilities or delivering a secondary payload via the embedded script and links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/41806154462.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2998c14e328c4ed4c0fab65b586e76a4/89724047908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatmyhome.com/img/files/pejigagagomazizowuvuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://powercleanperu.com/cms_powerclean_2015/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/80719078538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613248fecd4eb---robalefaxuvajuliwaleki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/31049277980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614c2843c4dfc---ledejokumalore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4061733d3bee46573cc81ff1dc23d751/zonasosupagamujudafipida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jump360.co/upload/files/20210902152650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://millersexpress.com/userfiles/file/ponupikawaxiwomez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rujiahk.com/uploadfiles/file/fepab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiegravesen.dk/userfiles/file/xaluzadenixoxapazanozaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsolutions.ro/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuwesewirixig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rpv-drachten.nl/files/file/31915956865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsraxys.com/uploads/66037345285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161303f080d336---mixelezuginizuvovetopim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jurvamartin.com/userfiles/file/limodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/bajazokurukupedutak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deshpanday.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tefagika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mlmrockstars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10783256194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://park-seversk.ru/other/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10759637784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuchina.org/userfiles/file/gifazuxapowalasus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refoca.cenacat.org/yiicms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47538854633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woxemasarurum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdjshg.com/files/file/42930632092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=fox+and+mcdonald%27s+introduction+to+fluid+mechanics+10th+edition+pdfPDF 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_off0000c976.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC976 18140 bytes
SHA-256: 8c68eb8040e5c1529f04f5430c9b44f166aab0b038c8b9cf9ce1ca8df1460f49
font_01_sfnt_off0000f900.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF900 11272 bytes
SHA-256: e3b4b6e4082bbce3b23e78d82580bb32cf0ceec214d73e248820fefe6b3c9381
font_02_sfnt_off0001135b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1135B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1