Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 659891c31916a1cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-07-17 20:46:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 174d8d5de796dcc597b5dcdb82c6e545 SHA-1: 0aea70698da0f46275f3f7e82aad21b9c2cac530 SHA-256: 659891c31916a1cf4df467a8eefafa6d5be3063b7950b13fab8689f11320a5a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDF lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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 http://piotrkowska77.pl/zdjeciafile/patulewezurujoju.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/omjhe84gs454ctgltqkt3ps7kv/76670436561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/66122241091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/48877165432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eotp.info/sites/default/files/fck/file/xapekiliwejerazexam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aroma--style.net/files/files/36745054666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff0027af824de5bcca1d3a9aabb69cbd/72144993981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e8a9efb78---35930625903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e1eb5f507---17057703211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartraoptics.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/26815866235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkt-optics.com/hkt/images/userfiles/file/denujolotabapinodaluwiwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/575014546b17c3e4f8429ce0cbbc411c/dikitotudutalurowigojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab5c41e373ecb76d5a6b0445cf841562/danomopoxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59cf17da22d212b697c71d50284c8e0e/88465064373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-fasteners.eu/media/file/23698536395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://se-ty.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/86158364424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc1f094338f---47671109577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071fe0c0043e---24708090461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160caabbc19ada---68660650315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/xuwirotalip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073856fc8c05---rusexudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c21bf0a101d---96535563617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ural-resyrs.ru/data/file/gogoliretatufibuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/nozosejetaxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangnhadat.com/uploads/files/51064691644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=shorthair+grey+and+white+catPDF 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_off00010cd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CD2 16944 bytes
SHA-256: 194e5cc0b394408aecf6b68a8778bc0b8f5c7a35e9e50097f3a94e0010a42914
font_01_sfnt_off000138cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000150e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x150E4 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 2fd6dc08f13b99709017f4de569f4e955a21011b8a4633803e736d4573818280