Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 859e276112be0ea9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:42:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 67bd506814904f4a43f70ccf9a3f9e24 SHA-1: b147f37d9e002ab8de61333395ae7ddc54e089be SHA-256: 859e276112be0ea9b9c3f58478c8ffba63eadcb1c9f4f208416aef9754de654a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be part of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The PDF structure itself does not contain readable content, but the presence of external links and the high detection scores strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://saigonford3s.com/uploads/2021-08-28/images/files/zakavinixusuwuni.pdf
    • https://cardion.dk/gfx/fckimages/file/78578055132.pdf
    • http://www.vandiestbrandstoffen.be/uploads/files/vuburode.pdf
    • http://reliancefla.com/admin/images/file/movelulijojowasugexutir.pdf
    • http://hyeminshop.com/DATA/files/xorimonogofaval.pdf
    • http://decamiones.com/userfiles/file/bamapolasuzipopifi.pdf
    • https://ph2020.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62246694732.pdf
    • http://sbs-group.co/userfiles/files/72856119244.pdf
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4e084cccbe---92494836354.pdf
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d03u8qk0sig2j1u2de60cbsee6/sarozoko.pdf
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc105913a5a8e532e5bada9b89216a57/87034646840.pdf
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uqv8sogkg05qf8ia74fpndotk1/20771200873.pdf
    • http://studiorumeo.it/userfiles/files/gidosudukinurezutariwi.pdf
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/nosalulamive.pdf
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3946f7793cba1123806a8fab0a4b5631/3000245138.pdf
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfe95f67b36---25388234529.pdf
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52e0d21085bece59bac514e37348a5f1/88550345692.pdf
    • https://texigo.tw/upfile/files/2021/08/21/35399830986.pdf
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac89f1438bd---zipoxuzejusafarugolap.pdf
    • http://corse.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vukomomeletakagadeguwun.pdf
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1837ba0497---vakuze.pdf
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/050b107lss8qc41v1v6khlcak7/wuroziralekika.pdf
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e12351350---duvivem.pdf
    • http://billagelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/16544592842.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+english+for+specific+purposes
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bb6e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB6E 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d380.bin
ef7fc249e911cfcf7f0639e92cd0822471f90bd04f04d36e2e352ca05703e4c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD380 15704 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb3b.bin
0444f2002041b8792963d26ff7787f3258a920dece01c4a38a5dcdbcb0106155
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB3B 10852 bytes