Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59f189d4b973e09b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 11:01:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b18d798a8eea5dde0197f8d22d816bcd SHA-1: 3b3ee317bdaed3c42a20321b196dfc7a606923e6 SHA-256: 59f189d4b973e09b5e36a18790594920d41c372aaf6a86a0b50d784ff6834b72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages, a common tactic for initial compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mi2lidhth0aenhm77ps0pfpf77/tikizerelupeloto.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608718e819323---94140650633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntschoolint.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/tatujevazudivebinawipeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport.frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15174082935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/judebogiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoretras.com/file/vixujulowedosumekeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karunb.com/UpLoads/files/55944816662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9520fe65d05d9c718875fccddc7adde/38577492647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charlesstreetvideo.com/userfiles/file/65748346556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081cbf025ecf---maleteji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/72144631868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ychnjl.net/userfiles/files/vibukekaguxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtmhomeschool.com/mycms/uploadedimages/editorUploadedImages/file/nudobebejiguvadajekivaxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/309cb7cc5a06669eb2a702da2a175eaf/71974429455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c589a4bd60---savasumesegusunodigale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canoeing.by/pics/files/7158850751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hemidsni7ntqpglnilq4en736r/46272984023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c2eb3bb7f---dopirex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahamianbrewery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68158881767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d03f50f2f9---wifanipijufatopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiampelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f036e43b3b782489f731be68eafe825/78297434322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/52718462357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608732ca7b0ec---wavibosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lionkingbali.com/uploads/file/fefobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://business-plan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/kapumavazeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=research+proposal+on+traffic+congestion+pdfPDF 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_off0000efa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA5 10944 bytes
SHA-256: ba8581a7344b77e38043bf30af049c7ca7de0d58eecf0acdb2784d1976a846bd
font_01_sfnt_off000108c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D6 18028 bytes
SHA-256: 061b403a86e653497f496a482d6f3b24afa01dee4a92240fb23bcecbd65bc782