Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59fe819fc5fe5a95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:21:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 78550e84c3104c4e12dec80a726cdd3f SHA-1: f13d4f392e416412dc2279fe7cf9c54fa32571cb SHA-256: 59fe819fc5fe5a959399fc5f0231734675eebe8a2215d3f8ef46aba3972467d1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, coupled with a heuristic for a download button lure, suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs likely serve as entry points for further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aesop+fables+worksheet
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1989ea4e74---85390070050.pdf
    • http://metall-press.ru/files/dirivilomojepazigot.pdf
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9a28c69a0---35837787640.pdf
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/xozajixigezu.pdf
    • http://www.contal-farmer.com/uploads/files/xowijurubizarutixemad.pdf
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/89046865168.pdf
    • http://maremio.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64023698976.pdf
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111ee60330be---jesatiregurizagupovuro.pdf
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2d35a5ac30---73268305940.pdf
    • https://vroa.pl/chplusfiles/file/84666561076.pdf
    • https://www.albriug.com/static/editor/ckeditor/ckfinder/upfile/files/rapipedu.pdf
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/43092878724.pdf
    • http://matthewsmillsreunion.com/clients/c/c7/c7863f7b93cb17915b2a89d887155530/File/porigaluxaxiwanan.pdf
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7a76bba8b3c74e01690a8845226c6e8/vivowufidawavizebe.pdf
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d00cee087a38f1118862ec33efff030/89804550067.pdf
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2ft1cihb6d83e27tp6j0f4ecp/55305499329.pdf
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90e96d168a39ff21ec41f8e3bd4e1d3f/65535184521.pdf
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3v1rdq6vfbpt8vo0lrqqop0e1/94858636217.pdf
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeb2f78d19e---xogilasaripaxukefopide.pdf
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gl1ocfmi522f1h9fhiocni5a8m/nulebixuvavowesa.pdf
    • http://uleshuzatshop.hu/files/file/82487246218.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f6cb69b32---revobureniv.pdf
    • http://akademibt.com/resimler/files/77673729681.pdf
    • 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_off0000cb83.bin
da5f026c48bf18b97eb7d64f2ea2d277b3315a2a431df315f8002c20f3a1243f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB83 10560 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3a8.bin
79ad7fd282b5fb89b11d85591bc4f76642da5110ceee3c5a3f7fb119fdf12539
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3A8 17648 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000110c3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110C3 16792 bytes