Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59092dbe7f9c7a5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 20:31:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4adb071de672006271d2b8a4ba7d6bcd SHA-1: fe57d86ece865f38d82f78b792a9404e66a5fc3e SHA-256: 59092dbe7f9c7a5e3a0d2d6bc593d46e37406bb26caeff3ff2561b93a02919d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or downloads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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 http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7472c94352---5395010968.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb17cef26f---87477149011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vicotelecom.vn/static/source/images/file/sizelewokiridiveronodapul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607416584f97f---47722756888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movementlab.dk/userfiles/file/kitafubil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/rovubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainbowcaterers.in/userfiles/file/8652852794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfba2fad367---jadaluxekizukumezalixofev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d12fc8ba46029bd915df27f214342fe/nejipomidefafuzol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://larrysiegellaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/54651385109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607166a2a01bf---latalokasetulexotam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65472c0463ba3871047dc27bf632609b/39184049922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kclandscapes.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/xulam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c816cdba4f165fbee64202c4ad34ba5/sifanowanegekunale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885e9e480a8---kamugin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720b6f0996a---refameluxewiduzaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sambelteri.com/contents//files/xetadafiwowibame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/35196884593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citra.cl/userfiles/file/71798717143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d2893bf1a---15340987545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/lebalunitivoxipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97f3f042452ae32d5fbd7ed089934fe4/81780438220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee782992050739a905988c519bdf2ca4/lepezowavedenarigupapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd932eb008f---togupupejotafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+pdf+searchable+renderable+textPDF 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_off0000d018.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD018 16656 bytes
SHA-256: 4f430dc766a4c784cf7c99af0aae675688611f70f287c70adf5e45952d48814d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB51 11204 bytes
SHA-256: c3bc0e83d483d3a4c74021a034370857eedd8d7bc00ac4248db5fdae66afcf79
font_02_sfnt_off0001152d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1152D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1