Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59106e1495afb54a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 01:15:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2e9da0906f01ba223a668e175680c07e SHA-1: 85e4b36e87edfee7101773630c553e1cad77d7e3 SHA-256: 59106e1495afb54a8469009e9b64c01c72ae56c1262efd9132ccc5c2cdc0f5fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's used to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm indicate an attempt to lure users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://bonafideonline.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce74bf757795c5937b01d06a39254f9c/55596957725.pdf
    • http://dabbleanddesign.com/clients/c/c6/c60e280709801842a26e47e23f21f170/File/49670085144.pdf
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87ps1jjjknl6uj3o60sk592ub8/41604523713.pdf
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/darufevumusek.pdf
    • https://noriupapildu.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lekopipupevamiwisir.pdf
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608878ea381bd---71363547194.pdf
    • http://smepil.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/lifusu.pdf
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afjl8ingtiv9r3ev4vma5vot61/xigazi.pdf
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac53d15f7fe---42956325215.pdf
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58202673747f24f533d3b150365ce27d/venorolanasa.pdf
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/posibawapuxazono.pdf
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bb58ad88a3---saseratuwijosot.pdf
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/504ff71c5f444941794a3b05385f35d9/16334796666.pdf
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/wagujejemegimusuzisogaw.pdf
    • http://thegioidahoacuong.com/uploads/image/files/99174771405.pdf
    • http://www.naraihillgolf.com/admin/userfiles/file/foperesawigaz.pdf
    • https://hkparkkonutlari.com/image/files/22394344878.pdf
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/837baaf81c26796171f39f074565c325/voxokafubazafopo.pdf
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/153v9i1j31lm3spdpunl817t7g/nujovotoru.pdf
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfcd5d84e338cff41f7029a9ab1d531d/ragolegi.pdf
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a14uf23e70krau89ohqofgdfrm/51861586541.pdf
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd9324a8b4---jevawowa.pdf
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d92f643ea91d72a0ec1e9d674dbd1a1f/pamulubedilama.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=bsc+nursing+first+year+notes
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e5c2.bin
341eff28718d791b877c0629a799d42accfee3761967718b9a47b365687e93c1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5C2 17976 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001150b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1150B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012d22.bin
eaf01c3ded201b365d77f97051d1eaa211f5f2a9c6bd8b2f10fa647d65de3918
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D22 10732 bytes