Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e59be072178c578…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 16:13:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 0ad9e3a5489ec4350f3f1f13966142b0 SHA-1: 7c3e065cf81447d88cd6aacf1bad3e7dedf9c5b4 SHA-256: 3e59be072178c578110021b497e2c5b70a6f75acbc55526737da0876edc10cca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely serve as lures to download further malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701196ad0f9---49907374387.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39d559e57ce9eb4d0a34864fe27df097/60853103338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/17146827505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d194870a3ed---xuvoxeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naoshima-habitant.com/venerovamilok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d37rkl7ecugqno3vnknkmm2h05/kapivodixude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/vugelagixef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eegbiofeedback-leszno.pl/userfiles/file/jaximovibadobonedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariacasettamattei.it/userfiles/files/63233531053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stalbeckers.nl/userfiles/image/file/losodomamoluwulek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardolf.ro/files/vafesunudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58bbd9f9adb86cf98a4e2a75dfe3558d/norekimozila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6rs5s7iqgepjceo0f2ph61kjh/82545314657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bookblog.kr/data/file//files/19491743475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thic.net/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/somebozukavebadagulejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd81857fef4e8a13c93ada64b9b38afc/vudikelisalaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/namosejawabogaguximut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antitumor.org/filespath/files/20210821081736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/70415492271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettodrabeni.it/userfiles/files/61071136382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yesilderecine.com/admin/editor_resim/file/jetususinozavokibol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5bf97e8ce7---64525031627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3e8b5aaed---97943198922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=easy+english+grammar+book+pdfPDF 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_off0000f33f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF33F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B56 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 6ea3dab848c6e995fc51cf4ad5ae117cf2e2c0990e5ded2c96cabc8e83413d03
font_02_sfnt_off000124ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124CA 20740 bytes
SHA-256: 206cf252d433ca00b4036b642745748daaeb15cfecb22fc2a5668cacef29a8a0