Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 859cf87909393fbd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 09:54:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0caf6b117610152d3da348b0e127b1ae SHA-1: a6e8582dbbe1a4c1620130b9d7980c2f3449366b SHA-256: 859cf87909393fbdb1d0a5b175211128bac9ad7aecf0e2489a83d29fa5c1ed0c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an attempt to deliver a secondary payload, aligning with common phishing and trojan delivery techniques.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608969b25ebcf---63594079747.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce7c225b8ab---57574150568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1b42d2502---kebasetoduzusadaluxefefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog//file/maweranekaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c55b69cdd---98889267023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mkii5o1cq7m871qds3e00jlqf6/25223066328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secretlove.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nunisofazosofitumepevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocatoandreabruschi.it/userfiles/files/mixozizufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe8f5c49c2---vepisexoxilofifunadoxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5772ae488c91f6a0fc4185a6c6b77ec5/modatizezuvovolutabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/lajopebobisilef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985bee1fcf9---17788858094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpt-mh.com/uploads/news/files/40999124942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd491342399ee8e58d81497d96efbac2/42981052626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d225dc0160---vubutowipoboromokefaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba50ce69848---xalibabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blokhol.com/upload/files/12236845730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rabudiagnostic.com/userfiles/files/tadiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/53127085051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockpapersun.com/upload_mce_image/file/zafipuzevugularela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbd055eb8c776ff9ac0e313d9e6721c8/41411706737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/35576001633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac73b6d2fd7---63497312636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oticonshop.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kozexuzetagisanaxavobef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consulcongress.it/uploads/assets/file/66046973298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=the+enlightenment+neoclassical+periodPDF 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_off00010332.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10332 16860 bytes
SHA-256: 3e48043833ec07904616da3195c8a68481d9f8f664ed647df987f3e6ff4ea1a3
font_01_sfnt_off00012ef9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014710.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14710 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 965264cd4975cb71bae008beb4e85634fecd438e7d8eb83be95793c2578f2960