Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59b74d2ad82e1390…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 17:13:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 100969eb27ad1408d22964f95843499d SHA-1: 40478a0a952c98bf12401ac6e60a4744618f7ee4 SHA-256: 59b74d2ad82e1390666ced23660f1bcc75e19484401e5828193c96b6ec3a49e0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs further supports a phishing or SEO manipulation motive.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=desire+2017+torrent PDF link annotation
    • http://logicamail.it/draft/media/zanolilovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc-lampang.com/user_img/files/webixuwebotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gleason.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84659252387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatagz.com/uploadfile/files/duriguta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxqzx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210903_120315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__614374B4C6DB1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/477b32f496dbad7222a1756bfe4cb55a/14427164218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permanentnimakeup-brno.cz/userfiles/files/kadivefed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssteelelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pepinobewijowakef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146555a2746d---67159582946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avon-bratislava.com/files/files/jesoponevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superpart.com/files/xutojedikitixogaxila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyn-ordi.at/myPix/file/tuwudabirepatasabokigar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fslawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/riniwame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationalherbo.com/userfiles/file/kilebabewolora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.enjoyvaltellina.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22855216844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranthachcaodanang.com/uploads/image/files/40654225309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retrofitoman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zazexuxumipoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/jatutirabapijiwimoxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watosaphotography.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210902_174725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ec1707e43d---74869172658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slide-bearing.com/d/files/64793518491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sireny.net/share/files/vefivimadal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilateralmatters.org/userfiles/file/tejozozexufufefudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000cdd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5E4 18728 bytes
SHA-256: ed93c7a5b1d47f8cf8c4bc3d66d61dcee1d3beab3a2e7c5dd159e38431ed38c4
font_02_sfnt_off000115dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115DD 10240 bytes
SHA-256: 052cede587a09bb38d2c384e47db889a171ffec6e992fd2050570c1cc3260af8