Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59403a215108a433…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 18:36:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e62c1f8402c50896f08ea4cb3d0487f3 SHA-1: 86021cca5818ba46619c72edc1561f9a42f22728 SHA-256: 59403a215108a43308fdddd79f06563d175c07d280f6f73f3e11e02146f1cfdf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to lead users to malicious or phishing content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf09c881624---xizewuxofinazeg.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f4690f452---zutifexip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/venuodvk04v7vvhi45g5q0bc34/lijamukogojanevifepago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a22f26cdc507c9cfe5c63005fff87356/bemogez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blevy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fezudupoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbbcf24337a59ef6a53f68191de3b6b5/vovikupoziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s3he8q418m3hh7l7jtnmeefsqu/xukebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66771ae57a---66402510099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609834e45edfb---zimobamulidudigivinet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trimix.bg/UserFiles/File/siresobakuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/vuvobogomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61fec312e0---gedokarepuxuzawabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/27291072772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birsamundapark.in/userfiles/files/tasogodixefupurizuvaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a07dd470f8b---notexijibegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m56o6dl8ug1hjoiijgeqmllt71/73627541894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5d8358824---vomulokaxoxorub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdaae8f211---toseji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/vovotagalerededa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chupwo.com/editor_upload/file/voruzapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wych123.com/upload/files/galofakugak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olimpic.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nabogafalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e8f2bcf16811523f9d1d903b29e70b7/54551612766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://latexindia.com/userfiles/file/nefurovaradej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c69b66eca21e2ef74d95f898e60e2ae9/papixajokuxezabememas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=inserting+superscript+in+wordPDF 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_off0000e803.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE803 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001001a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1001A 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 6df8e2bd7e758109e9b07c21eefcdd4f99964d4f39fc82d4595edcc30aa4ded1
font_02_sfnt_off0001185e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1185E 17584 bytes
SHA-256: d3f392cb259efc8d0f2648a2454e5a63b4a059a7ff37daa4a44242737b06d68a