Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59508ea5caa5769d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-14 13:24:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 974b0dbfadafb3a530ff524901768d18 SHA-1: b685042517dddbd2596e40f4c7812c5ee6bbde71 SHA-256: 59508ea5caa5769dd5521437f4afb5e1674ab8595d8b7f6e9452058c6f55567e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and a link farm heuristic strongly supports a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://indexone.ru/upload/file/lowiputuwozudoxokevikom.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kartelabasligi.com/images_upload/files/37926375867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caythuocnam.org/images/files/11187671276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chptravel.ir/data/file/33444900554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aristi-trap.com/upload/users/files/topototuleliriruximurag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lindendirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94985778642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/96249327658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgrafika.cz/userfiles/file/11071623856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theorientgarden.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/59907899902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://venefoil.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46626405170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icoenergia.com/userfiles/files/fupuxafitonataz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2549ef7dbe1f6f4a808ba90099854df0/88493314847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orel-trinity.ru/sites/default/files/file/58927008962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valosagoskincsesbanya.com/upload/file/3462755548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/file/fuxanojevesexub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umbabox.com/userfiles/file/53806335542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directorvincentchow.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/51022237721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137478d0e49e---21508059672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.org/contents/files/83344746215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guitarenko.fr/img/files/67538097783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e71f8b9adf---19261815711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7434244cddcf26f4c9ce94933bc21d05/pedagebogegipelam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pxmonastery.org/CKEdit/upload/files/xapufejetoputadurozejajef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giustizianuova.it/userfiles/file/61325752832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derfo.info/resimler/files/xefizadumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=ovilus+app+freePDF 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_off0000c74d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC74D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF5F 17796 bytes
SHA-256: f06cdf63ffba43bdb0705e0c98ba798f1655d5a487352433c4161c61c4fea1ec
font_02_sfnt_off00010cd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CD9 10220 bytes
SHA-256: a6ddcf2b833705c2d273422792dec9e7fc3a45589280bd8558e7ed70aa4b9112

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