Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59ade8cf445f4d02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:04:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 414f4d4070c92eb63f0d7bcc26e9cb72 SHA-1: 07a07db223308fdd6d87d2d71df40ac5f7cf5b01 SHA-256: 59ade8cf445f4d02d06f5c94e906aba983afafa3eb551e3eb59876f27dc7fc66
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to PDF files hosted on various domains, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm indicators strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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://sun-eko.eu/files/file/waweposidafijepulobofo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078104b07347---72523377002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://choinka4x4.org/cms/files/file/56375337405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacantioquia.org/aym_image/files/kazujapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8767365b6---bimuxanunafajowuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cahayaapi1.com/contents//files/91497412364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48c63e8083fbab4a53d6e0c567450d32/gojufirovajekar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-moonlight.com/CKEdit/upload/files/luwarenubijisib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db8b6d95b0---53847692132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://louisamerino.com/userfiles/file/mosaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/vaxezedugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35cb2898d8d70ecc3d1cc7ae2843256f/pexikusipomanizaburotun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/17884288673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be874a37838---paxenagisurapeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ddefc6222d---36373439941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c0572200ce7fe88f29945dc34d74123/70886355264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fdfbdc28c780af6a27380d7c3b90b0c/sarimozazimug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srividyaastrology.com/userfiles/file/91913950481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/672b4d10ffef0dda2dcacea7b1e21829/gojepuwajenigaxitibuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiyaslo.com/uploads/files/nemenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910cfc0a96f---gutukuvezivisajimadajude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilatoryzlin.cz/images/file/78174431177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6205ca028a14381a1aebb7c1a049d7e6/25475820358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huaienclinic.com/uploadpic/files/52759124817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=reminiscences+of+a+stock+operator+portugues+pdfPDF 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_off0000b4bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4BB 11152 bytes
SHA-256: bc1bdc41ca7baa85e655807428a4827e07d68ef0542c3997572c79e36de36a64
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE99 15456 bytes
SHA-256: f1b16efce3eebd51d10a77101956e1f85c92b11dfb7ca79a738a6c4a46f07361
font_02_sfnt_off0000f55e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF55E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1