Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0594c22dd6072659…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 01:53:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 747fccf5d4689b9c59eb090646d9b445 SHA-1: 84f99c07159f92da2aed3641f0cab2454e9b115f SHA-256: 0594c22dd6072659ee1fbb0f0bf9b6eac1b36f6d8f7fb93d061b4e6b27f66377
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to distribute phishing content or second-stage malware. The PDF structure itself does not contain readable content, suggesting its primary purpose is to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210626050510.pdf
    • http://tmtechvn.com/webroot/img/files/8702448808.pdf
    • http://worthingtonpark101.com/userimages/98218025576.pdf
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ikophi20a981mke8vajjiv0vh6/zazezikopa.pdf
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/vozobesaniroginog.pdf
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08483f7a395dfde0417a97839a1d77b1/55633158702.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a39ca648d---75458340655.pdf
    • http://mulroyenvironmental.ie/userfiles/file/47937606430.pdf
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8q8q8jffnpddms0t27prokeek/posejumuvutonaxupeseten.pdf
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea363edd8027f28ba1c3ac71afcb7c5d/88251601323.pdf
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5666c7c68---79162660149.pdf
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf452cf68b---vopilorav.pdf
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/83503453854.pdf
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/66266768466.pdf
    • http://gleneaglehoa.org/images/file/fuzeb.pdf
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14jqn0isac2tgbpmje1vlm65u6/guxuvumawarulugi.pdf
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a2ee94619---dozedixijituv.pdf
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083605a9336f---jufaru.pdf
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8iqq8ms79ipjhocepspqb8umgt/73522246459.pdf
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/osbj2fslu9l4j53uu86n0nj7v8/6882099859.pdf
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/05/30/file/20210530_005917_169.pdf
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b8b28dbdd9---goxalibig.pdf
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/44023821572.pdf
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/karadowafil.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=can+i+merge+2+pdf+files+into+1
    • 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_off0000ea68.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA68 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001027a.bin
b7c914db6b200344d8d7140cfd6bc60609fb25f469d51c1665e9b91abb8f607f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1027A 17288 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012fb4.bin
d3ffecf049d2eaabef19919d596bea9ca463d105299bc6457b351bf8fb9440b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FB4 11044 bytes