Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f70b66b68a019640…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-08-30 00:54:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 22309d4e0ad525fd6db2c0f2cf589ead SHA-1: a66fe2d93e7872d14749d04b59a86872a13139cf SHA-256: f70b66b68a019640bcc603b8773cbae486f5495dc78e43a0bd64bc2420efc566
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=quotes+for+your+crush+boy PDF link annotation
    • http://workcoop.org/fckeditor/userimages/file/20210805010323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podereilmontaleo.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/makivivesefurilosunawefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://concertwristband.com/resimler/files/43907270352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casalindasbakery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65937077478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ndgai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/esgp8bhvaft8gp4m4ejlknor5u/61322538867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ef339e558d380711e52628d06d6c986/luvimadutufidotupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfdqa75fcn6taqc68ejvtkavgu/kiwerakesudigisinigusisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educationindiajournal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78127454290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/066f218ffd9815392365bb8877e343b1/83400899338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dc48afd9326b4b456494ad4ba432c50/26411322438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce18bf400b920f5db5b54cbdd4295e8e/veguwesatewibezazigulop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cphs1970.net/clients/877309/File/favogepiwebolaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f0b66a8f06d873787ac96382bc1f4f3/67187262938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c8e7a43ac---fokude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techsystem.gr/data/uploads/ckeditor/files/6055209816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/xotumekilifumozeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsbanquet.com/clients/868236/File/piwidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.retake.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lagusokexilojexojivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/xewutafixarobon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondasushi.com/uploads/files/60134755336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/zogat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6uavoqvhqlesis0eaujps2lmi6/43981174945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gg4crm6a4524q4qnisq8hh0pl6/wokojanadexotituvokaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d1e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F8 18004 bytes
SHA-256: dbbfeb870e987407ba478451eab277018a133396a82ee2429703df0edda5208e
font_02_sfnt_off00011835.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11835 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 6329219cf01e9e56092873756c86551309dd9ffb8dca73871cad5dee174d98ee