Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 259956eeb5990641…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-09 02:11:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: ed038f481c3a3d5f8c6112b0cd615987 SHA-1: ea0bcc09de8a76cc83bdc7c86ffff0d77be27562 SHA-256: 259956eeb59906411aa6d9eb9deb346c850673bdf85c6acc6796f6167580cd71
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains a link farm pointing to various URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://adbrf.com/files/fckeditor/file/13825689961354bd9b3232.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://onlinendttraining.com/files/24118598727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundimjob.at/images/content/files/xegidosenedugesidavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133613106bb4---papilij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holcom-wd.holcom.vn/webroot/img/files/mepuduxokegejetepus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdata.vn/upload/files/97483785405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copperscraphandlers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zugap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startmatbaa.com/userfiles/file/zewekituvakupisekuvatij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalgroup.at/tmp/31893634130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec40d9098e56c98c228cbdb96172587f/28979153817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supair-lux.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25837689309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arc-en-cielproduce.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dafopuposa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novitas.ro/files/zaduno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://888nv.ru/userfiles/file/xugedulesuzumudasopim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thoitrangvabaoho.com/Images_upload/files/16384531208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoadon-dientu.net/images/files/pazod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyisz.com/mingyi/images/userfiles/file/62660886435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brukspec.pl/upload/file/zetolalebisaguvujib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpghollywood.com/userfiles/files/91749135305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hftyby.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905231011522931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ns4eevgffcqebovrndvjcb4q3/32972178514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skoleniridicu-online.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64752385104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexe7cho.vn/upload/files/38498425795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dcbestwings.com/uploads/files/vaxupawobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/vipemif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cecev.com/stockages/files/48631512795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=bus+simulator+indonesia+appPDF 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_off0000dad6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAD6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2ED 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 63eed6ca95dbb402c28b3f34086096a63ebc3f918b291d36ddacbaf4554cb60b
font_02_sfnt_off00010b80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B80 17640 bytes
SHA-256: 0238e8b3f7554e3e6397e13e66ee8f44ca37348386c5ce2d2f65607afc152ac0