Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59ffb74566d73cac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-08 11:55:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ddb5c3e1d334bccb4a81a73b222a608b SHA-1: 0369b1440f295f28564a772c37c219bd2fc879b8 SHA-256: 59ffb74566d73cace755a1ed60cc7c90e81a5eee0380fde9088ef26bd7e7fca0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely spearphishing attachment, aiming to redirect the user to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc0b2ec8f5---temirokowuwasi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/11970437717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15c7df160d874211a95a81c47dd9815c/88745407524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cornucopiafrederick.com/uploads/files/31363947364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/kogonawubujufafinesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/kotajiwuzimokexumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amongelite.com/ci/userfiles/files/nasinevijuraxuxodamasobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab7afd7952---10320371284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/64112621053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/21672426319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbaf1b1c2a7---78869222515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d400db41faee6c3e07f0dc464b746e16/rigawiluridegenedezepugev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078bd8939220---situwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082244bf3bee---39142541945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074ac453bc12---10030728099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/lofuwotulofivix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/59361827323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48a1446a343b6482b82c1fce5c7be35e/babadafujedibugumulipugul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49072550991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/58560593796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79bsvp3h4iijsrhm939si2fsnc/94154102238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wagaskar.com/media/xepuvawuwasil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a89305ada0b---gixileneli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f0bf9d5553---vefajalesapimalajovotuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16070d1e0d7fcb---77358931000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=cooking+mincemeat+tartsPDF 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_off0000f242.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF242 16768 bytes
SHA-256: c5733fea059e66ab5e8a7ef0f8aae97a3de6041fc438bd0bee7b232fadbfb35c
font_01_sfnt_off00011df8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DF8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001360f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1360F 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 467643e4a443560143b530522e0ec09ae9728c0cb00a3c95c426b2613c16990b