Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e70d9edfb3c83e42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 13:53:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 275ffc8698dc9e2d8294ba84b9f7ffa7 SHA-1: 90219b5cd71011e8f5554af5476bfeb4c277624c SHA-256: e70d9edfb3c83e42d1ea6279dc5bcee2ca848d0941e8c044837d060ee23c677a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external URIs and the link farm structure suggest an attempt to lure users to external, potentially compromised, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://lemarko.com/userfiles/file/dakosodubuwodufu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ffc15c27d---rowizasekotafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/44704587782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0898.com/userfiles/file/20210607164931_9ybg83.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chayka-svg.ru/files/57816293857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd87e5f8c3d5ebfc44cdf85efc99f150/2452106261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevasilicones.in/userfiles/file/tonipudumakigipukavalajip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vncdata.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/fabakaropemaxewozewov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/vorewukidanoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/nuwirarewusadivogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/xijazamubixawopapare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67ac141f91cb187d1c5be53b5931240a/fozavovuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faresaldabbous.com/uploads/files/rufomokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decom.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38795329265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f43ad15de9---kodevogasafem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39f93ea9215dd747d2ad256694d838a4/gididetatanilito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4210afda596a51b7a7207d6df0a5eed8/20621966073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4c98aeabcf---vuwito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/miuqh30m98llivfv95q5p8ar73/25525715493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lubrifianti-auto.ro/files/file/51596941947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88905359698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/39868697797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/815ee0390d200175a72e907ebf4d6bfb/60233948592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607623965298d---63850281324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=latex+includegraphics+pdf+mehrere+seitenPDF 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_off0000e4fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4FD 11108 bytes
SHA-256: def51cd521016a99663b0828d5a4460a7db0b9444938b33fc9f3fbfa13cb1021
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE7B 20968 bytes
SHA-256: 6e655df75eb1f7113a6c055a4272fd037a41f0f4c2c9baaae5ee80e5eacd69a5
font_02_sfnt_off00013464.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13464 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1