Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59043d6fbd2c7041…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:46:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 25b2902ce96d95bef9688721586b3f3b SHA-1: 79aa42aa634ea8838ec26bcd006a9ae7128ef223 SHA-256: 59043d6fbd2c7041c5b07a2261d9a1a9cc7f8365117775104b256e6e67ff162d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1304dfdf144c744903c3bfc27e476515/20568662971.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/63707361815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naveenent.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/subolemaxutodev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073beda78453---15791343559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czechdidgeridoo.com/admin/upload/file/19403023431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventsistem-bg.com/userfiles/file/pazebizujibesijetuvijorid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://policylic.com/uploads/files/78888461866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d88088fd0d---kuzemalopebetop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meesens.be/KrMee/Tekstverwerker/vupiwukiluvanibawef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612dbb161041f---85909831426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160896a5c33266---39692227080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rkn83vivtbu43k0pffb37021n3/76885369676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854378744bc---murar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenbaycruisesagent.com/userfiles/file/30189761138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmatik.com/uploads/file/pusofodizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.training/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/54856303576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitcostruttori.it/userfiles/files/jezutixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://littleitalypizzany.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/fasufoxaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72029309150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771ea273643---50340172391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/pogujimele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=chemistry+a+molecular+approach+4th+edition+pdf+freePDF 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_off00016c2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16C2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00018446.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18446 11208 bytes
SHA-256: 2cdea596595a190ba01325b9fad18ff5f19da872d1bc2fb2d633d8090db9d915
font_02_sfnt_off00019e63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19E63 19108 bytes
SHA-256: 45f7ec0ad3383f2e39ed3c86d1114d3cd4b946c1ee835185f419901b5a32cc57