Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59bdb8f760f2ce11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.8 KB Created: 2021-07-22 20:03:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f112b4c90b21bc859b27e464b200fb52 SHA-1: df9b4540bc1a451b605076ebaa28f400cd85673e SHA-256: 59bdb8f760f2ce114299b72a1c8ba4e4f80a121bb9f360717e2add618087151c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristic analysis revealed that the document functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as lures for phishing or to distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607019efa5cd7---21868346300.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f91bf1f2e---vifowowunoforiwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608421c691114---77575530886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gesas.it/media/mailinglist/file/83143339486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vita24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/dekupod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df595de39ae---14307639501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e3959852621c5d54a9d4d9a3f5ae315/xawafirurabir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47326026e9---90899132737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pushgroup.lv/userfiles/files/42726940627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983168d1ce5---93311434821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msiutilities.biz/documents/jevamavuxibivadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stoewebdesign.no/userfiles/file/mapepafafax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abebbf7e194---luratejowemagivigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turatabor.hu/media/sonupirawuwidibido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akifkasaboglu.com/esatfisek/images_upload/files/todesigesosenawogoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.net/contents//files/61486465433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fb5083512---gemesewapesezotowul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f2ae972ceef5fc2ef824970e9a5b994/saxabavabezidulowuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5cea64fa06---rinevowakulawigomokon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beliangka.com/contents//files/jamom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qytbearing.com/upfile/file/kotafafavofenedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086928871db4---47875210326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d90a3406157904e525d7895c1e53bff/51808946096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=boom+and+townPDF 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_off00012e5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E5F 10012 bytes
SHA-256: b1751c31ed40b7e3f795499318cfdee735d1093341ee6aa6768b91fd359d6814
font_01_sfnt_off0001449e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1449E 17036 bytes
SHA-256: 339645c79ad44cf7947cad735538a8e70405e3dffd70c1f6fc64a80ce468251c
font_02_sfnt_off00017112.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17112 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1