Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9759f59e2cc17796…

MALICIOUS

PDF

178.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 06:19:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c23f346ab1193d7e017144077de548f4 SHA-1: 19651c8fe1464d59e296561bca0f4c0583ce0183 SHA-256: 9759f59e2cc177964e514d9e004d719808e2c86382575bb734ad9bb40ff0135a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://guoyangmoju.com/userfiles/files/28748499617.pdf
    • https://aspaeng.com/files/image/files/jovemesegerebil.pdf
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808379c3979---subabozuturitofosakat.pdf
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/87482038777.pdf
    • http://nakatka.com/files/file/nanune.pdf
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22e0030fef---64179238654.pdf
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf797d128a2---78572275266.pdf
    • http://newo.ru/files/files/kerizu.pdf
    • https://idd.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sozofizozupijarirowusu.pdf
    • http://songhandiban.com/uploadfile/file/2021062119461973499.pdf
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1q6hbtfvvocem5kn05vo4hv2q5/56339368911.pdf
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608affa856b6b---54776960378.pdf
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608681e30ae76---musominafamebizimipo.pdf
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c03jdisvhj3f3lmfvl9v13gsd1/gitusoluteganetakopenomof.pdf
    • http://yjsyrj.com/userfiles/file/jelisejoregokuruw.pdf
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/70963455512.pdf
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d74a95c95e75f0cb8d2acd71d9d34de9/xoguwasugonizatimomoli.pdf
    • https://www.emma-solutions.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4be4e2374---92798904875.pdf
    • http://www.doctor-carpet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2msgdc1a68plaffgdb0p662i64/42608118462.pdf
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a633e03c338a64ab289fa474ed1d1477/goniwobunirafow.pdf
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872fe96ee8e---xunejivamojatovoroziv.pdf
    • http://polipack.ru/content/file/5803902789.pdf
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfd6a93f5d2d3c63ca77a4e196fcdba8/lubowejevugimu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=all+characters+street+fighter+5
    • 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_off000259c7.bin
4895d267a979aaed970178f100c7a3f5172c2c997231c6dbeb079cfd7127c444
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x259C7 18016 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00028874.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x28874 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0002a08b.bin
58b106591b87836d5ad311f59a069d36b7c8774f572e16cc1d26df6e162d1070
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2A08B 10504 bytes