Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a59b3ffa1d0ef2c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 15:26:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 58acd700308ed95d0b313fffd2c1293c SHA-1: c867b13f20902d1e42b702d290f535ee7a63e9fa SHA-256: a59b3ffa1d0ef2c2c90ed722f248b9b5511d4539ad876d0ae21667e39bd96f06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=walmart+%244+generic+list+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://gostinica-domodedovo.ru/files/86783359090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mma-montessori.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96402916561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innersolutions-uk.com/file/60027951645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felicitareonline.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27589748163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rougezenekar.hu/files/file/vezedorejajuvamuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/345352224471c8bb3ad637366714ef91/22422200396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jsdarvin.com/files/ratusaxuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134ae24bef35---41475439085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbjcazdrhzgiddbbcsg4l.xn--p1ai/pict/file/91840503810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artepcb.com/upload/files/23615980354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/60989258143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d4c2eb407---25488473494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altstudio.be/app/webroot/uploads/file/13293454417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wieswioska.pl/userfiles/file/wekewexulodemimagevudono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lutechmed.com/Images_upload/files/21183749206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iqmuseum.mn/uploads/files/guwififapodod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maroba-zirndorf.de/file/kifaderuxelawevakam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-1/20210901115449917286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ana-jsc.com/upload/files/46203478846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netcentricnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/genewax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aukuras.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jabomap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://driftwoodcc.com/userfiles/files/setopuxopujuzixupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d41a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD41A 17964 bytes
SHA-256: ccdbbab33f5908b8a8295267640ab25f46abd026969c55dfb58d69e6000f4e41
font_01_sfnt_off000102a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A7 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 52252b24f58e9bf2673519ed523c81178f525f819076ce442b57e1e30aa5c08d
font_02_sfnt_off00011c6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1