Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59245046405965dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-21 18:01:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: f33b5663b1e1e3ba0a2fa02294b257c7 SHA-1: 368dab6cd1ee69961a47231ef8179008abba886c SHA-256: 59245046405965dd5943b42b132854e740d2d72281f8ee1c4f8b8305719d857d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable domains, identified by heuristics like PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious content through a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/bewovuperutanalosirak.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.as/userfiles/file/pikuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3luahfgqorhtr439377249a392/89610172326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m5j6kmbucl10dao9b6f310tek1/tumakekefatuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbb100f83e---25734546528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b33b1648ae9---fasidagavira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/843a4c1905279ba4bc42e0474e6f8dbb/padekosaxoruzapidoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2hv10nvbnk8sts0luer2num92/kowirafuzufuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dpvcni0po4kcsn85lkfh2j12m/80016786750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtoolsrental.com/user_img/files/41322214060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhipuma.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/sixixupasovutokoden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maggies-handmade.com/UserFiles/files/21706576976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2a84e3988e---vigapol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78cbbfa2205d3d6524d43b0fbd9ac577/mipikizotexivim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc.soo.jp/file/34085053476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/29045825657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulv-fogger.es/d/files/businalijapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd4d1623f8---70333151367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afdce5b650d1927646bf5ac1f643b7dc/fefapodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072235fe8fa2---69807836939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/rilalewipibojamanezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=my+anus+is+very+itchyPDF 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_off0000f146.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF146 10432 bytes
SHA-256: c4137662404bf1ec6ed6d770a03ce522b07658d18a15f4ee82863f3b14e0d0f0
font_01_sfnt_off000108ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108EE 16488 bytes
SHA-256: ac4f45de910b4d528be8242959c2bd1a9a333ca7f0839a0147c514cc28f1f113
font_02_sfnt_off0001338a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1338A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1