Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59a6208946716067…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 17:52:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a5d61204ba1e5b0a7624669fb6af5461 SHA-1: c9e0bd343d13fe794e4beca87ffc2da4d664b82f SHA-256: 59a62089467160675c19832b4040c354518d4d82d8cf382f78ec6d694dbaaa6e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or downloads. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9746

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ff69d560e13fe1c638cb23c13c8c846/89969987020.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b13f5ea27ad8f7c4b39a8fc4dd399ea4/vodepiwonobosafeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/litusamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/tidukamulaxeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b85b6decb03f15d5f192fbf5008f2e4d/24016458089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/59248493378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/wazudoxiregorofuxagot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bojovicsirogojno.com//files/kipes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c799abd6c56---nilipakop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a13a9e48cc84f203bc39782898b32ebc/sijomokutexemosadafurupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaeram.com/userData/board/file/24445624471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ef2179bee---43627114450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a7100857bb649890e31063595e7ccc6/tizinoketul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/wosizijotaxatasizuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketherballize.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lakesatolarenulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6f1c81c2f3d07ad2215a6117cd31967/gasefazexixidozobimapofej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b595c3f9d6fb1a6f24e5f5fbd0496d8c/17251321206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22a7b9cfebce65682e94957edd64f21d/78951080241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio-september.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dc51ed8600f97a75a83d119f3abae30/xularovibezewivanufunano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-10/20210610145939515131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210608_F57241E0D1F2F874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/13478083391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/32067469273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a8bac8a5c1137a0c0581ff958cda9e7/37129605308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b149f88e46e---netifekeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppuhperspektywa.pl/files/edytor/file/lonafigidewiwene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=unsubscribe+from+junk+emailPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000feb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEB4 16292 bytes
SHA-256: cd50eb7aab2f0e9a52beae6abbcea2f1f43057679cc4dd188eaef8d3d32b48e5
font_01_sfnt_off00011472.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11472 18236 bytes
SHA-256: 21a45288593ddefc6e98df88c2cf03db42d3cd2317fcbfdc56b50580a3052e5d
font_02_sfnt_off000144b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00015ccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15CCF 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 7bd967407ebdc4008c53df72106428016f3d078549e98ca7ed6e1c1e09130742