Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f70a494c89f526e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 08:52:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3877946d8b8632ea373438935c5e2039 SHA-1: b4c768f107aa940820169ed90640c9d97e78255b SHA-256: f70a494c89f526e0e9a0d759ad858c9a6136b042f2b2b6eed899219ef0f7a392
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://rugerwafers.com/demo/ruger/beta/userfiles/files/49590845088.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/76850240288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fb0cbe794a---femoxogugebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3506c478ff---gavefasupolufavedobal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alcantara.cz/data/file/96081213736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmp-familienanzeigen.de/cms/files/26746119392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancedynamicsla.com/clients/38740/File/xotufumujebis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/79131454889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/piwefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kdsonline.org/userfiles/file/nozemamalekubisebiduvove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhsclassof68.com/clients/73441/File/vogeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orig-shop-gsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23064723303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2a45e60a5b---vodijokilewakuwuvaweta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774d069bb97---51248690938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuakeobinhduong.com/upload/files/48371701537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acquadiqualita.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuvamixoxesevulesixunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f48ec48cec---lafuwabasuluvagaxixanoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/feredin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319f58db728---pofoxutonisegelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hicoweld.com/shop/fck_file/file/fejesifedumavirox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gursakaryahukuk.com/images/file/jesiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wappa.com.au/siteadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuvixetilozunajususilifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichibus.vn/uploads/news_file/finekujenep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://408of53crownstreet.com/assets/media/files/veseruzufaveko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/80651418638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=free+printable+fact+family+worksheets+for+first+gradePDF 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_off0000b52f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB52F 14572 bytes
SHA-256: 14fc03e91f707fe1f1831fda73d190df80aeebf29695a20a3f498236e3642ece
font_01_sfnt_off0000d986.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD986 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f19d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF19D 11476 bytes
SHA-256: cdd347015e3b1ccce8b29e66cef2aab6986dde21274d112d04b1e6d0d33cd305