Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f59cd0ec0133c92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-28 07:11:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b4b7e0a804d775e112eb0805ef95f97f SHA-1: d2c399c87ac7413436a5cd69d384e133f8f85fcd SHA-256: 7f59cd0ec0133c926b6e3c33e2d987273a01a15874211875004746c6ba1e4d0b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to external websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or further malicious content. The file's structure and the presence of multiple external links suggest it is designed to lure users into clicking through to potentially harmful destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://koreaseals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/witotemanavawisomusuno.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cyuanmei.com/userfiles/file/77221022781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/moxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shortguycentral.com/ck_uploads/files/42074895551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/65723061338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duocmyphamcongty.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/xesupuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tsgv790lo5en6a6cahe4tq82sf/90817457019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkagenap.com/contents//files/luzit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charqueadaboavista.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8700d2b6824713086475ba2989691e89/pixedopudimilefusukuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aglogistics-bo.net/userfiles/file/vipafax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adom.biz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jowus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aromamahabaleshwar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78084803740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o092k7u7t2o9rd5qmhd3shaddk/xedosudajiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/32950252559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab466dbcba5---11548116721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c749705dd30---19779726633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607852446ad33---34868446406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf6dc17745---86310468054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomlitkom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73252331019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/75557588235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cbeigplgoegbffd9iseq1l7e5/vejusalorezebudefal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/dagokuturulibexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a92532b5b---88170344680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vakantie-noordlimburg.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pamijegupukofen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e3effdde88cfa6ad4bc5d257e63ca09/sagigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=trader+joe%27s+cauliflower+rice+cooking+instructionsPDF 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_off0000f343.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF343 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B5A 11056 bytes
SHA-256: f800f0e6bf637567e52cae7887fc2edaf968e42754bda269857a3081ec5c5be5
font_02_sfnt_off00012511.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12511 16640 bytes
SHA-256: b29c2bc08e77ab03d7d1094bca19d88a3cd228ce55da813436b13cbd0e877cb6