Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 859a3efd30246cbd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:54:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1e62074845e8e85649b28a39d050c510 SHA-1: 2c4b452487c9029d12476e2ffb77fee69c0c42ef SHA-256: 859a3efd30246cbda3ec27b481939f11f09cdd043da555191fdeed82d306e081
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and the ML classifier assigned a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://sterenstein.ru/userfiles/file/43828349357.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6m5a5cq36vjjbsbid1da7rfi7/jutiradigasix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845fbe16133---xiloviwukamarul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a75a430b322---jegewezakusubemekalikaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daearesort.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210606_3BFCFA892C599240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe48560116---nusema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdq1jiakq4of3h0dk3cfadgubh/68795624379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1b682a15f0---4939131646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhrdbekasi.com/webroot/userfiles/files/janovijevodudeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghebinhduong.com/media/ftp/file/37096200727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/gemetasabuwedixafusipos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/zisoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crownprolaw.cn/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/pirubofobubili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangrilatheshow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42422963549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110b0c91f3ea---61132017539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773956b7c1e---fitugizabilalaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53864c30f46822848c02c25d1ee9ace1/35860059873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalensi.com/public/File/lojopepatofaxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratorioshamalab.com/userfiles/file/60841124762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logo4you.dk/userfiles/file/26571118841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430111316389920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retroldn.com/userfiles/file/76195226515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c152c4cbc3533c9a9659c715bcf892b/lewonosivoxebupifuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lubrifianti-auto.ro/files/file/xujomopeveselarodew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=commonly+confused+words+worksheet+pdfPDF 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_off0000d56e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD56E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED85 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 18bf2b47406f418ae693926b598b1595bda4b3411a4a92485b00f5800ca1f461
font_02_sfnt_off0001072e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1072E 18472 bytes
SHA-256: 463c6c7660bf09fcd148e9bcba64c5dac75eb73df475a2630a45128fcacce551