Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59b3f5010ff77304…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 13:30:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f92f5979c79976e9ececfc9d625e4a25 SHA-1: a791d42ab64116f32239425ce60b5f5cc487c0d7 SHA-256: 59b3f5010ff773040bbe76ccdf391d00d19e809d14aed8e96beb38bb3d77674b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests tracking for phishing campaigns. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gaming+quiz+questions+and+answers
    • http://pension-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/dojire.pdf
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5d6f10480e---gafonab.pdf
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42c6aa22fcbc5595b67a72d8dd37c22b/bobirenis.pdf
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210510031052_888203979.pdf
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160870f8926ee0---35441430441.pdf
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b574e226c88---lovasulonusepanagiximatu.pdf
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/60391509116.pdf
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/40347965676.pdf
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/galevadapewufizarewubud.pdf
    • http://szalkasszorutacskok.hu/app/webroot/files/content/files/81304869347.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9036b7e11a---71129380439.pdf
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b1326dd7e---pogibuzuvefurabirilitema.pdf
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e303c84a2f6cdabad6c2d634cc8d7c00/68495291738.pdf
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s5ohifqu0jj87k9kl1tv79008h/gigilobapapukojus.pdf
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee7053c7f03efbbde7102b30d9fa3d86/zufemupewaxekitadap.pdf
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/defa8240d3bec00f08bc4d3fba44f5f4/94169263534.pdf
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f00d2286a---43474352897.pdf
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0da12774f9331e212450b147a1c686ff/sapurifoxise.pdf
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb56187816---xojoxut.pdf
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s58o3duo3fui4tuo1ik0ia4i27/81278503363.pdf
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/7457541152.pdf
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tod0785ur0o3q6a0mk7ujmk6vb/rozirir.pdf
    • http://best-infosystems.com/userfiles/file/85832437619.pdf
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c20337b81d1e217422e9bfe48c7f628/50480409571.pdf
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/97041421324.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_off0000ffae.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFAE 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000117c5.bin
39efa71a488979d87cf8ac008c3e99361c0ad0c64489f9d49c5e5e3ac598d471
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117C5 10976 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000130dc.bin
ce3a2f7ec7ea5642031f861199bd76415226ab5eb10e63b7e84899a96493218f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130DC 17712 bytes