Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 599af85cc2b5bbb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:23:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d13763b137876567573f20bc5e5d3fb9 SHA-1: 9510a1b6a80fdddb5b6ba94ee3fc3d6501d3bebc SHA-256: 599af85cc2b5bbb1789aa59b8fa71165a63c1bdfc3a930d44976b1014681ccca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, indicating a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, consistent with phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious document, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=auto+de+fe+elias+canetti+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f79a29ee840---wafijikekas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/dapibapuwisivis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba4a58ecf5573dd818d871ad8607b2cd/nodegarit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/koxododakuripubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chung-pei.com/userfiles/file/9885029194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voxel-avocats.fr/uploads/file/rubiwawediromawix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/fibuginozugobusebenaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nozuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ead5718221202809755680b4b0594f5/77150354043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/zexiwidovafanenew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alistairmills.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56052426339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benmoonpharma.com/userfiles/file/56843810393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrpokedb.com/uploads/files/dalinafudivudefigidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6f95c9fbce58b3d97bf4b28b63f12ac/2889308479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.org/userfiles/file/88043510491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://repare-ton-smartphone.com/userfiles/file/lutalakironozajedilogejet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elisa5888.com/shopadmin/upload/files/84266396696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ob98vj88hp111r3k8fo4b8eb36/xejowemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a94531014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsa.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7171381586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd813f67682b4096c9c790ef6e270563/61003867184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4245ef98c7998fa7e992ca5d8b2246bf/73992032502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4179caaa1a30c158d761a612faf9abff/85099985116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumtinathholidays.com/admin/uploadfiles/file/77392644705.pdfIn 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://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_off0000e656.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE656 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 3bc13e57c05468b1e026b798ccae45bfae12c1d6bf5d77370b3cf774b3491dab
font_01_sfnt_off0000feae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEAE 18320 bytes
SHA-256: 20bd17a30bb12377794b9cf2ab2b1f3260991db36861e46d84c35e2e09f618bf
font_02_sfnt_off00012e6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1