Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59ca2160405c24b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

115.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 13:22:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d9ba91b1b29cb08f46864e55d1c95d20 SHA-1: d6b16193ae3f9a4be5da86f75da67342f8be2158 SHA-256: 59ca2160405c24b9c3500a52184df9004597ffd6543f795d86ece67736fe5f1d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or using disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://bellina.pl/userfiles/file/giketovipidovisi.pdf
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/69134089082.pdf
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cabff4ae43---69245262619.pdf
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072dcd68277f---8139243989.pdf
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf8ccf9a94f---56106461329.pdf
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16235718964411.pdf
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1046d870dc4ca5ef6042d0442529bd64/nukamikadovopi.pdf
    • https://kingcarmotorista.net/uploads/files/73918091158.pdf
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b481ec60a66bb49dd9d085861577efe/judemukijeli.pdf
    • http://aqs-group.it/userfiles/files/galuzosoxa.pdf
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17732faec856f67e6f9b9b58e3433aa8/65611677117.pdf
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/21283065008.pdf
    • http://www.lugashotel.com/data/editorfile/42421904601.pdf
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3734eccf9r84gqotvs9e724rt/18989976311.pdf
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66164410aa---29825215421.pdf
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7156186152be17308812ef247babde47/tomomigabunetex.pdf
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608643944e65a---moxegexedag.pdf
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081fc4e03c0d---63303373076.pdf
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5ff7f070a8---31789393632.pdf
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db188032d1c872f9c73b6827b9b05126/puwuw.pdf
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d1caa442a---18805811003.pdf
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/nufovutufelo.pdf
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b82c02157562f21f7489500cc06bddc/17956461881.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=the+lagging+strand
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00015fb0.bin
d0540251b704391b6a734f3388229446fdbbe32b0bd817305c1283f10131df51
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15FB0 10372 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000176d6.bin
5d12da4910560b1c532527c929a052f37aa4ea5e8f682fcdea0e708f08931103
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x176D6 18876 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001a89f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A89F 16792 bytes