Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59bc0d11168b17ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 02:09:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 98fb947e424ab0c8ed777151536bef98 SHA-1: 21c245eb13868334fbdef7309392b44a65cef9ac SHA-256: 59bc0d11168b17baeeb31091327b9a9376445e50779bb892f59e6885ee100af8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vet+ultrasound+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/773521f39175ee67b251e45a972ac06e/benuvusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f5598a34d---desojugimiwuvepubiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juniorclublivorno.com/sitonews/images_upload/files/kowedoletosupubis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92021e040dd77b3e1d3a3532d559c7f0/40667053131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebd0094e3ba7ce523a877c8a44da4358/rabisutolusirol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a7nu4uhfce6lu12bub5i96661/27029675811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opakowania-loga.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/78837729034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba0dac7c3ff---nasolumetumaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xmzs.org/userfiles/file/72337889893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whkmradio.com/userfiles/file/15845396422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4877c2460530ebc9ce12eedc9ae7790b/wibupanesebusuberefogetix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaisar168.com/contents//files/ximafodoxerupet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-sta.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210630_D2140A9D5F17D9CB.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dri3lr3qribghg4ond7ig0pfeo/23250397896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a77f39b377f91f5e219519d8f65d89e8/xaroxemubuputekedifolixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/op5svfo5v049rrt08rbu47cf0i/41294362084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dientrotiendathc.com/media/ftp/file/38540902790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjatkinson.com/userimages/90914064633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dh82v3mopondoc24jl0jks77oq/zasigobirakenulepodedik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pass-eco-energies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xubadipiwopafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wawabed.pl/uploads/userfiles/file/62997036959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.integra-cr.cz/administrace/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14857552202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parzenica-bialka.pl/userfiles/files/gobukikobubuxamimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/nowadugumigub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/43345157546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/11368916191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e848e8a15---29575322670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palakkadtourism.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/721313.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_off0000eb02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB02 17008 bytes
SHA-256: 833905eed7217e14bac008e581b26a5a08290cfa3e51228fe1251bb3196dd83b
font_01_sfnt_off0001175d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1175D 10468 bytes
SHA-256: cd2ef0c0b20b7dea79327632922db3798683f599bf8ee3c3ea72f77eff2c8c88
font_02_sfnt_off00012f4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1