Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 659c8497d0d1cea8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 20:22:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 446805c72e31eb14d121c1ba73bd2985 SHA-1: 4d75a43253d6c804540f4e3ef2c25e6c409e9ee6 SHA-256: 659c8497d0d1cea85ef1ecc6e58f4d25b877cd8c447ea32b67a82652e9b71331
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links are likely intended to redirect users to malicious or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/422914f32dc1fc8ce84d92a9295c5c68/79229817904.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccb23c42285---22550668964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879797d9f2d---59911381428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpspcb.com/uploads/files/bigobepuvowirokazegowawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/919409292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/agm0ea273ugqu0hbf73h5ove55/12785287889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/45916844748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmprogetti.it/userfiles/files/molabigujuduzasirej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geombiagioschettino.eu/userfiles/files/fevobeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1i09kprqq6rmuvsb5r7h5cgd5/42965027789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/626a43a2f65065e2769b6b41da78ef0d/luxumogijogafinikexip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4rdof7nbfjdsu9pem8ftjiva17/lorijinaxesewepomerukema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e69eefa38086561758f07472fcd5d03/sinerebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/14662280179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/50218744949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083239eeccb9---12718980475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/59429768592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210429145124101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce50075a5d---tabodasobewapofupifel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26cfed8cfd0197fb7123b003fd05c850/42195250441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606df7179cc38---xifuguribumoligo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada2e970571---37224086520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1031443df286220acfd6f2e27b24d6f9/vodosawotoladoganowogugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=gilbert+strang+introduction+to+linear+algebra+solutionsPDF 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_off0000d0a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0A6 18392 bytes
SHA-256: fab2deee7cb7f80329f0a7ab49210f2713b0dcdf30398bda4b1529236f1c9923
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF76 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 99d38dc046effb64c21f38113213b5d9a36df627ea90570c8a234d124a254fdc
font_02_sfnt_off00011857.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11857 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1