Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0596b0e531571219…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 01:07:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2ac118819a5f045b05962b91ad431c72 SHA-1: 8fd86a00da8af72a94f745b164a51e5d199e1d54 SHA-256: 0596b0e5315712193cf66f21be33a10439bb6463c7c8a9849153d656929096aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable domains, suggesting an intent to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms on compromised CMS uploads strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manual+transmission+cars+2019+volkswagen
    • http://atletika-pardubice.cz/files/file/42574935687.pdf
    • http://www.trafikyaren.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vl3ou4fmd9ek4r9apgtqfpvfb5/74572776740.pdf
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dafd55ada706441d0a54a6f374e01e1f/13088293937.pdf
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc69700f28---zewiratutotazegu.pdf
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/xixifarobegedaxezifepewi.pdf
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f32adc73a16---morubifomanoviximeroke.pdf
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/4616017193.pdf
    • http://zigzagontwerp.nl/sites/default/files/file/jopesag.pdf
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u22o28jdhsjqtkia70r6hpbf10/52844888162.pdf
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d0afe54242---fapujumirevedebani.pdf
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/07/16/file/20210716_155238_178.pdf
    • https://liffeyartefacts.com/fckimagefile/file/72760894231.pdf
    • http://bndweb.nl/upload/files/88474758445.pdf
    • https://cometsecurity.in/admin/userfiles/file/beputavewugijavekudugib.pdf
    • http://ceskylakros.cz/userfiles/file/4056081619.pdf
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/scdebtbfb7s7ir5kq8cb5evsco/teroselimokonewolafegu.pdf
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161107a493d8c3---59928133695.pdf
    • https://ltanimalpark.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11d02b23ca51bcffd80089bbd9594a88/jeluvukiwininedilivenalo.pdf
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/pugoxetumotirejakijawo.pdf
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qi8mrhhsts0llpk3mi9i068m6/30425808991.pdf
    • http://venusland.vn/app/webroot/img/files/36835322196.pdf
    • http://dochoiotovn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/xixufovakolunira.pdf
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/xutonijoxikiforiwuxikedot.pdf
    • http://armanetti.com/images/77396542450.pdf
    • http://jikaramen.com/uploads/files/38309608832.pdf
    • 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_off0000fa77.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA77 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001128e.bin
7b5461887f0c0cf5a111505dfb06d6461a81a12c646bec1367de089a51b82bd7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1128E 11372 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012d87.bin
a33884bc71d5efced302f86c370b455bea90231345e90911f9dfab9bb83a7d72
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D87 18628 bytes