Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59adee32eebbf040…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-23 08:16:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c4722a2f0cbd0d8f3f83b09a9a640f3f SHA-1: b81340dcab2dbe8315a021e6e8c38eeff61fdf60 SHA-256: 59adee32eebbf040a175ddaaf7a003a19ff0d113ed4bb128e8e903be3919e093
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics identified the document as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The embedded URLs are hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be disposable or compromised.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9765

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://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b1b82da7a0bdf691632cded4ac3a1bc/ketager.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d273f7c97e---92768810126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ic.ru/uploads/file/72263111337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a344a57054d2abe771defcdc241a189d/62320693248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/50691858012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubcrudupsonoma.com/clients/1/14/14cf715f5cd05ddba197ceaa5938d7d5/File/lubavuzoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uk7cgbra7g9a9gcoatgc7htca7/roxezunewagav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8tm0d7e5l46ogiccrfrr9pplmt/fonofanenuritamubififino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed8b999e0966f8d92849504b2461537c/20600138917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/47869683024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90161cad79c2a04d0c29def50c6a2ff2/6092832319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/mafebot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/68468478879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikizmir.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c971c7e80f---72907606967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oceev8e60sretcjsnqlrds4goh/nulixaruxapoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://career-id.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99424330340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a55be312aa7---60532204607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/92776578827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/nuduzonamosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/repozusojifarerukesugis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinamex.info/uploads/news_file/59215407053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087cc59232b7---5254825930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c51e902421571eea5f2a1b9c8e77620/ralujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43efbd2bdb0156886057de8aef66fc53/gamovegutujerarakax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df329a38e0---kanatadulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/20229826995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=1+mbps+to+gbPDF 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_off0000de03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE03 10056 bytes
SHA-256: add9186ea9c1ff8a8932f5998569b294f4c9442521bea425cd2542b7971fef8f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f428.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF428 16140 bytes
SHA-256: 00b1f632e8afe72716c8bcdb76b7901b56c060d1dc0f96f3f5c1b8373b85735b
font_02_sfnt_off000109a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000121b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121B6 17492 bytes
SHA-256: 1f99d48d1367ca37554e6faad226c03a5c883eec13a2f73576858727ebaae187