Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59bf65776482036f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-02 23:41:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 74e0694d435b9f49ebce125da61f0b99 SHA-1: 26755484d65aa806d6a95a6699a9cf66f52d0058 SHA-256: 59bf65776482036f160db53c8de41c80cef51689fc3753d18dfb50e1c65a71ba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://orderkai.com/uploads/files/35304772219.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021052307041373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/18246909870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batiment-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/42190068125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/figikunisuvoxilimigom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/jetevesujemawubudurime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nvhr1nr00evg7pd0h1lload7nt/22970261501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dycmc.com/DATA/upload/files/202106111131514966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13e2388b8c5a4f7e69beee0cb4683b4e/buroxasuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607168fda4f6b---boxedawajatuzobogudes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a3fa37cb00---81184032441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiklatakip.com/calisma2/files/uploads/98988871883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bd154922a8---35713330492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p31ajg0u0lh7dm003p7g2bm48j/razedubugexokir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rhho4sjghiqmfsglqeqq34gsk2/nuvajuvorewufuranuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topas.lt/userfiles/file/81392361506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b009f1671a---ledogilexelomudulibopex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ec9d23181354e39f2c20b1ab99539da/93962415810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608efa483d9f4---mupizutakubetumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l9edbs8g9jomhbmnm76du4qimr/76419530245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/guxuwikafuzenozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e453892fe---rukesoxakulilex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160746e078ceef---nazixudadufuzunezaleni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=find+the+length+and+breadth+of+the+rectangle+given+below+if+its+perimeter+is+72+mPDF 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_off0000ed87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED87 11508 bytes
SHA-256: 1e702caccfe7b20d781c761108d1f12d298cef155307e9b5084256cb5ae7bf80
font_01_sfnt_off00010841.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10841 17528 bytes
SHA-256: fcb8a75f41c30685e6e5019866ba55b8feb468096792b77a7a22ef61e29e0996
font_02_sfnt_off0001365a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1365A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1