Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 859b6f35af432fe1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-12 14:59:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2d7c0fcf94bd86b9221a993b060e638e SHA-1: b4b1abe22688246f010aced5a330740faada74f8 SHA-256: 859b6f35af432fe1349e6657d00e53ffff85469a41ddd8513ee4e0d3e8efbaf7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or phishing sites. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL analysis and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://studiovalentini.eu/userfiles/files/68543190171.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.cascatai.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dukababof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbkf.org/files/files/57863792928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d3fe904ed7---zogosepufolefot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcbcharpentebois.com/ressource/site-image/files/menelabodakoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delve-cr.com/uploads/tazegamarugigisegufuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retrofitoman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12253797503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holcom-solar.com/webroot/img/files/20499740875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuttotop.com/userfiles/files/71402813777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lenaoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/wabuwomobev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basealimentare.it/webroot/files/fck_uploads/File/54792701004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210906113518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b75e7b9250b452ea99349c1456eef71a/vopubimorukesek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixturkey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/63383446523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccardolj.ro/userfiles/file/35023636281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b8889e704b---79466305167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/33201261578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_FF7A52CCE4D55F1E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161316084833b9---85480085514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educationindiajournal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/motusoziwexek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tagsu.com/attachments/fckattachments/file/57295049767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.ru/userfiles/files/tubevudegejekasafez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3770b1ea2aa1ebf06bf1fc440118865/linepotum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+android+sdk+toolPDF 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_off0000e19a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE19A 17500 bytes
SHA-256: 166e771e9d1d1ab53a345f1de3ca9823574caaabe199aade7098e8864e670118
font_01_sfnt_off00010f44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001275b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1275B 10300 bytes
SHA-256: 3935e5e0b973c570fdb91769721c4d724039277a2f3dc9482f5f8b77d602fcc4