Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59abfa2734511597…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:20:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 963f8da085d919d2d65928fc54615b4c SHA-1: 0cc4b9f7faf88188e0d2a54ae59d9a05919d56da SHA-256: 59abfa27345115977dca5ccada7d5a95542ab510623486544d1759171f14c07e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to facilitate the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rachel+cusk+a+life%27s+work+pdf
    • https://okazionche.com/files/51106978026.pdf
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a1cd9bfc6---vapola.pdf
    • http://stisk.com/file/60552850245.pdf
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c71325cd4c---pedumaped.pdf
    • http://t-eamplus.de/web/editor/files/40693769351.pdf
    • http://congluc.com/upload/files/84533150116.pdf
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b29c53b3c1---47482118139.pdf
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c52a962a2---7458790626.pdf
    • http://nova-auto.com/upload/37625895365.pdf
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873a3f5a76a---89752437748.pdf
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cb608b3eeda07a05449c632e885d6a6/satuvexisa.pdf
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea3c5f205821b275f8035c2f98f2d486/26075010018.pdf
    • http://oakgroveschoolheritage.com/clients/b/bc/bc5c94904a1f00f1300372e6f875146f/File/nalegodasikagafalajazolex.pdf
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/69131103386.pdf
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44e807acb0ce83e4c82add0e9710ce9e/72727090186.pdf
    • https://amursvoidom.ru/media/files/davokobixafununuzurexewem.pdf
    • http://valkexclusief.reviews/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xilurumi.pdf
    • https://beldapromosyon.com/calisma2/files/uploads/zinelagexakinojibiwivinaf.pdf
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610043b59f95f---radazutaruzora.pdf
    • https://treasurehunterdetectors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19897411433.pdf
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821dec19793---46780322728.pdf
    • http://888spirits.com/userfiles/file/42788887234.pdf
    • https://atlaskvartir.ua/data/uploads/files/pididomubolinutinimop.pdf
    • https://condominiobrisasdelnorte.com/userfiles/file/82436700496.pdf
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/lizikunuwigalokev.pdf
    • http://ugrctrani.it/userfiles/files/juwazijudotapemezuv.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed59.bin
a9207c63198ee8ad3dfe5cc5243d876b88fa17a056b31ac5024af4956f749cab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED59 18064 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011b89.bin
676b0246f033498e3f1fad004edfdf99cb8364992aded0799a761805ec3209c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B89 10872 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000134f1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134F1 16792 bytes