Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59bebe04f2d67b04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 02:55:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b1980f9a7857fca9cfc7ba7b13093ff0 SHA-1: bc1d667541135d526a447c07e2e735eea811e9ae SHA-256: 59bebe04f2d67b048ba458ac3e63e7af8e63a4c8c5ad1fced70e746cfe474387
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of link farms on disposable hosting indicates an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af577111de6dbd339c039ff9d922b50b/tepitogizezofope.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d69c25241c514d87a89aa5020f28fef/pawulimizabumelej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k30ff8cv7ptggbgcbr4bt2ckr2/pupepuxenaworapow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/mutalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eingangrad.ch/userfiles/files/92646113916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609683afe5735---nawopenexufite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11f16960cb05fcac82763150b2e59041/33474471601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092ac3c6a993---bewogetedamilodaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a780d31c86e---kapujirenada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64816d2f9806d5c8aff741505a594dd2/xenote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba14aa370d2aaac7707a916033b8ab68/ruwetimonupawubof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://napraforgohotel.hu/upload/file/271216392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609acbe59d2e0---genifiwabel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/43611559754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soosekszer.hu/upload/files/50431166221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/fenesanawefokewemudubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072254bdc0f4---97590711120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/sukatigipolosolinubururi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4171037c3f4de31728457337a3b49d6/13869709102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d23e0ceb060---fajonoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitcostruttori.it/userfiles/files/53291694371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonamedicalcenter.com/files/galeria/files/bigugowabikavebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77cae8f1be---41185410730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=author+of+all+the+bright+placesPDF 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_off0000f3bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3BC 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 62ea9a5b054f0532886fe1e08f072527c0d7c36cd618504c1f6d0a68ccfd2f3d
font_01_sfnt_off00010cd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CD5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000124e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124E7 17112 bytes
SHA-256: 7a788ab5f2791b09267079afb25d2af6b2ec1290c7bc565d9c9ee4d363c11cdc