Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a59d7b45b572598e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-10-01 12:23:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: fbe72156f0b28c92b7e5e6f9b35b5673 SHA-1: 2e686f155f9e762695f12320c5ff2d58090e0b7d SHA-256: a59d7b45b572598e71388eb97e801fad57078ec6f7e789dda1ccb3c671ecc479
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest this PDF is designed to lead users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9893

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vascular+transport+system PDF link annotation
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615229bd4a777---wupivevekiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mzr-avocats.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vixipetepezebibovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b8c830d3cc---pujedulebudelilakevalowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145bcee2d695---97195380716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studioconcept-stand.com/fck_userfiles/file/4085535603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zakazspbwatches.ru/upload/files/gukivumudanija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b774917b2123501e83fd5d527e32501/94107563573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csodamalom.hu/files/files/45287214248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://croatia-flyfishing.com/files/28304985561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/50637711038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeloanz.net/images/e/file/12500354791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umartravel.com/files/4229111447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motivationandmomentum.net/ci/userfiles/files/mafarapugojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parmalab.it/userfiles/files/53306770817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mentor-tutor.com/newGroserLikeProject/uploads/files/gevawirofiluduvalaxaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzion-pod-rozhlednou.cz/img/file/pusam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbkvfu2aex3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17410337992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161521d3925fa8---4778689514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekidilektekstil.com/images_upload/files/36433988384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-tes.ru/files/file/vovivibamasedukizod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecohort.biz/userfiles/files/nujuxupedubotosesef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/peletini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rollfactorytogo.com/uploads/files/jalur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kriosispl.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vejol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findusafranchise.com/files/files/44836355671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boumqueur-edition.com/upload/fckeditor/file/vejenab.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_off0000b32d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB32D 15580 bytes
SHA-256: 2d836e176c6e851c9520b05d210f288de9f892b3f362b62409d8d094ae436388
font_01_sfnt_off0000db29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB29 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 0ec6cd972f4d139eb08e5f50f1c50908496e6d9cbe3d537f0a6cce7d0f6df3d6
font_02_sfnt_off0000f38f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF38F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1