Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a59c94503c54acde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.0 KB Created: 2021-08-03 05:14:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: abcdfcd1ebbcce1e5d04bbc71fee1fd2 SHA-1: 214ff91b03c72f998e278526cfc5245cfc7060a3 SHA-256: a59c94503c54acdee147eb17a1e0216a43b7b3975ca6003a3da53f0acec5e9c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, indicating an attempt to redirect users to potentially compromised websites. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ventaja+competitiva+de+las+naciones+michael+porter+libro+completo+pdf+gratis PDF link annotation
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/rigivax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/godisetimilomavut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/46920419223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dfcd39823c---sumepira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5666db8a6b---86203941482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0jtu40oqcjh1r55gfcnurpa5b1/kigulaxabofupemuliripoxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096893d91e21---woredakufasakexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/xarajaxadozigutikixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/37028402172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/44865488218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ce2tagcm5d4eaor744i4a58i8/71894135944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/38461036333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhsbeacon.com/FCKeditor/file/33211735976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylowa-pss.pl/userfiles/file/larimefatupikajanuroruwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcd9b10c808296707f1607ebf08679ac/38633184453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpiecznamlodosc.org/files/file/63607047866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gryf-wet.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vowosixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadmoor77.com/clients/39738/File/72067058949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95bcd3430c---womitamodupofisabowenuxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e67a0d97d4a---82028022278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/63846291850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polaria.cz/images/file/28330198986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdcde31c986a85fe9c741ff30530bbd4/234429201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609afb4292f26---82270348542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16oe6k1kk7c2jtoe8fp425mvr4/josojezaleronuxolusutel.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_off00010afb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AFB 18720 bytes
SHA-256: 075bb47a60fba1cbccc432bbf65d8348b4a3b6829a175b94f8bd35efe2abf07e
font_01_sfnt_off00013b89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B89 11372 bytes
SHA-256: 1ea1c1db164a34f3e571c10ec9b7c2044900509bec8094924b58ab89d85200f8
font_02_sfnt_off000155af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1