Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59244773c7bb8c69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-06-23 02:16:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 9b30252c0b0304f5d56b131854fe1307 SHA-1: 54d7e2ff6ec0f539d5abe63fb6f14c76353d6dd6 SHA-256: 59244773c7bb8c6995cb2f4f45de362a14abc79e1165ea30d848d7bd63a3ea81
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 a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to lure users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains metadata from wkhtmltopdf, but the primary malicious functionality appears to be the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ncert+class+7+science+question+answer PDF link annotation
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa5c1772a6f---56739808076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ed1cab07b---vazopemuvugunujibatig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/kuxisafiwokifade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4gea5v1i4mi2cm0kbgghh0f8ko/67694030771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021052502341268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/449631f0289250fdb5ffc2d98d06496b/dosixapogufekezevufilun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carriewoodfamily.com/clients/5/5b/5b9f2fb360c4065436fb7fe1267c3612/File/zumedopad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/75250631614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/fuzubogiwifobosuvikete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnachip.cn/userfiles/file/20210514071214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee614d42384bdb0e966491667a670c3b/93783463461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5n94jnm8kan200gsoh86360ug/dejopukurekitojose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qca.ch/userfiles/file/32218575049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwarbitrator.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mubudadazinemanawuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad43e66f33---31202902698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a519c559e---90475325047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/tarupepogunalabupebaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fbfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBFD 4940 bytes
SHA-256: 1dee4ad9e96a5d10cc919a0752bd3d0f2e8abcc11aa73eca0bbc939b9a86acb1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ceb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CEB 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 05046d4925c457d354d7fb9919de956d7e59cb47d4f46732e4bd3dbd937fc58b
font_02_sfnt_off000130ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130FF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71