Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5059479cddcdc372…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.9 KB Created: 2021-07-30 11:15:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6d5016b512ce87dc318a99b38f122ac9 SHA-1: 3d29dfa13400a3c7214550ff0998f9a816adddff SHA-256: 5059479cddcdc372d4a0564b1ecfe56f1e8ba24440ec1fbda505e28fd10ecbf0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a URL with a 'utm_term' parameter indicates a potential phishing or SEO poisoning attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bendy+and+the+ink+machine+guide+chapter+1 PDF link annotation
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf14ac9bb6a---18037528060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/1326500033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2-view.org/home/view/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19604631049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/82921464262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef00a7c8ec---90421284267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/taliroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uhp5psm28ug3ve80jmflm08u67/86271395604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioituigiay.net/uploads/files/refudedowoxesexofava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/899b1761e571f4df3d6f7cb1d20ebf1e/61095563596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonikqnc.com/upload/editor/file/1627242510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-21/20210621095951766664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe1b705d996d6d4b36c130a76b2721ad/rifujovajupejital.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791d0f7c190---96471018000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22a6384f194decbcc2c7789e390bec18/gizonuvuvifiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/9375657529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/59614355340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vakoplus.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/liduzakida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jv0g1ai4pbjsas52k0p9fli8db/takurevigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/lizutuzirisowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://underworldgear.com/upload/users/files/wepeganinugidofidalix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gurgy.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/togepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/26925965012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/164c88347057e4d7b1c6369bca02af9c/11702728676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fcb7311f9d---fonokajuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e34f74fcf---41301084252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/76544990760.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_off00010d30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D30 16856 bytes
SHA-256: 526bcd8f89039e2d4f45acf0d95958f0af65cf26abe6f37ae4a82c1039b96b96
font_01_sfnt_off000138ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138CE 11036 bytes
SHA-256: cc03dec213297d8e733e6be1ed0701b26ac904f1c31bda72fbe69f1c26e4040d
font_02_sfnt_off00015230.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15230 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1