Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59dad954dcfcf8fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-08-17 00:23:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d1ddf1cce0710f57d6bf794033d6e7ca SHA-1: d1870b606ea5b6a39abdd3f1b35c6849cfe6f202 SHA-256: 59dad954dcfcf8fa967ff3b31328a86c50c1126ef0022bd683f39ebecfd11646
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a malicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=partitura+piano+mama+queen PDF link annotation
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a235a4dd2---leron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcoliseum.com/uploads/files/84907363941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingmanresearch.com/userfiles/files/rasomotiravuwizelogivuwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a08160ede741e51e44d1145ba47798c/1291788954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077283f13c22---9527356430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/26599465550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/65113230919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhanloc.net/userfiles/file/bekitodugokinoket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosewoodcity.org/nbloom/fckuploads/file/zawemegij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a3e705eea---28915527992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexperte.de/userfiles/file/30186922159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160930ef1c466f---woporo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/me7u5rvu09paganj8mc1huaru4/vomubowepola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haustechnik-hagenauer.at/zajasulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnsunnyfood.com/d/files/41418145284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ville-saintleonard.fr/pdf/34235015030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de9215d090---63482029419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphanaturehk.com/userfiles/file/48296240302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5d4d064b3cfe98fa4f1c7466a995788/7724123569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/an82tu97ps7cbai4bmd40v5hn6/wawedulobelataranaluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf01d69520---metowiribowiwikixiniwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aa37311a9eb16ad045b53bd7699faef/xuxudegikatanukepemux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45b94dd63efbfb5ead9f307078f5e2af/roxome.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_off0000ece7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE7 10448 bytes
SHA-256: cf9aee96c2105559341ae9e2bdb120e02601ed1a9e86585f5c1c06f932f13280
font_01_sfnt_off00010489.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10489 17624 bytes
SHA-256: 0e6bc2c8be33b891e18b7bfeafcce0572cdb48fc0950e8e9ae23568380da4667
font_02_sfnt_off00013295.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13295 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1