Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59ca8ce3491ce908…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-08-15 05:20:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4c7c65f929923a041fd6f9167fff9b22 SHA-1: e4b19a1532805bcb4a5862fc77b1e893ce2c30d5 SHA-256: 59ca8ce3491ce9083067aa2207c5c721f45e4950344fafe9f9379da2f2a0a84c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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=what+forms+are+needed+to+transfer+a+car+title+in+texas PDF link annotation
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160995d8680602---22415350779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sysquare.com/UserFiles/files/96636035284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/gomexomon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077890eccc81---nefavurir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerel.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/27598518132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3ac117bc61---zosizoxupesedebaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immo-cjeanpaul.lu/userfiles/files/jatedatipezeraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddservice-bmw.pl/userfiles/file/woxulibemagikurasomokiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circuitoinsulargc.com/documentos/file/wejukikut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87b84720aa000b01e2906c95f6d7465b/sazulujulegefuzeput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puntolinea.org/userfiles/files/98401886153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160858816b5dd9---topefowozixebujanud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rgfeig3hebuv0u40tgq3e09395/12885953334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c93df53429---42029912808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/60375399304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/xekolagozuvaxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/xabukipawetewexex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at-studio.tw/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210709_030004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruppopolidori.com/upload/image/file/50231449148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/bekubopegazefosizizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/51944603873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/vibepuzopewagebumep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096ffb006349---50453692019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaongonmaiphuong.vn/webroot/img/files/51589721023.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_off0000d58c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD58C 16004 bytes
SHA-256: 3d03439600d2d04989aa0ef2703470bd5f680c8f59129ae287c01636f1c90bc8
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF20 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 60ff9b82b28277ca57b45665b90a792669a485c5c48770d2f693e5b61924499d
font_02_sfnt_off000117fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1