Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 859e2668739bfe17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:01:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 95fd4a4545e1893723be7bd8107847fb SHA-1: c2127a16a1898fe3f69e7c13d273855b099c3627 SHA-256: 859e2668739bfe177c09ad4985ebe63eddf4829d670d24bb015d90f887b76e24
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous disposable domains and compromised CMS uploads, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://fosterfreezesantarosa.com/uploads/files/wilofetazitabevi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sochi-vitrazhi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72394854946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvumayphoto.vn/webroot/img/files/mejefukemovow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeshopeez.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/gojusede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo.tw/upload/ckeditor/files/78919444126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72e3e1c231fafe428cbe727668efc019/vugajoxobulop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740fe64e6e1---43241982904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsaneeraus.fi/userfiles/files/pizodanobegabetuxusakonal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6db3vkdq4lcrqi2jqrbjbqm6bb/35271886660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/61210287554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c357b3a1990---ribasuzufukoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://someteme.com/archivos/_20210704232953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/gixawetoponevajutovim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ih-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43323439094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suprizpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/18826600981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b891f174636---sujefonimes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://essuances.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bozimajijusekitofejuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6kdacu4bor4ccfstu76if8o3g4/paruxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd86f7ec0f---fetopupiwomawuzove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9c4668bdb69237cc2e98291b8b37723/50745880229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onellenorzes.com/uploads/files/55230730404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dadesigning.com/daduserfiles/files/73673761654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6a8c359d4b---29785410802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szybkieprawko.pl/szybkieprawko.pl/user/admin/fck/file/xuroxejevabalorobosef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610715168d18d---94628715824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=non+pharmacological+pain+managementPDF 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_off0000e332.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE332 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB49 10632 bytes
SHA-256: cc69ba8c097cc8d46ecb7007b985bdee517ff6d0d0a7712caab3cd3ea6a65af1
font_02_sfnt_off00011360.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11360 16956 bytes
SHA-256: 8b91536ddd06e29471dd397d88febd768b84672e30e469643e7e2baf4f40d088