Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a59dc50e05831669…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:10:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: fa4baeae633e22cc440914ebd01fdeea SHA-1: 3e2fe73b6bbaa36e300b1bdf6e07668ef4021e71 SHA-256: a59dc50e0583166912665fef4b604db98a6a280d1522fc12acc1585c2fbed47c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. These links are likely intended to lure users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+vinegar+formula+guide+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/91965445530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-23/20210723172527441320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897341993ed---87106144527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e64d782a9180666f2ef298f7b0c20835/87913441838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ore-processing.ru/d/files/lefeditiviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/mekuresujuzawerujan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d72d6598c4d---45093385679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reklama71.ru/upload_picture/rebazisikutudawuwofuzodak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alajuusa.ee/media/contents/file/walomunomazigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lecieldesandes.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/towaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec3519745b---43207198277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nedimgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/wetezevoruwuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772d8bc0832---ruresiwubapewuvasejedudix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcobernini.it/userfiles/files/letazibewuras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9241df4f368a71f7c41e03852d184498/saradedimejoxabul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botaierpharm.com/upload/files/53404751172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/pajenodogirupal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liubeauty.com/luutru/files/rusosukatomafiruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150007.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210907065111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editionsitaliques.com/userfiles/file/bapabuvuburul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/io04en43aippc206o8l37fiivd/jifugokimotubifofisiput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609057fadbaca---wekebired.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biancoacolori.it/userfiles/files/mebubokikomubosatafufi.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_off0000f76e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF76E 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 57eb0b1a41217fbd9c8dbd1d70493ac4c93231ece0a1e44996dd1cb0f9eb3e25
font_01_sfnt_off00010fe6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FE6 18132 bytes
SHA-256: 06087b51a4b76b5b92150d2533f388d7f9311a8076f33e50fb34f1a24b041e31
font_02_sfnt_off00013ee2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1