Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a59fc6c15c0fa930…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-21 17:20:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 500cbe4ba480a0b7269c67f1c3950eb7 SHA-1: 51197f7c0ebf46ea8ff7dac6cb9e271d12bd1394 SHA-256: a59fc6c15c0fa930ca69f1d5cf98e29ba5afdba86f48143d603068513e35a108
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the presence of embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/79848810889.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/027ef469b239240b625b140653e175e3/wuseno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b8d452f1f---34808827406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51f6d3658f---11331055689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/73743013213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4c00cd97d---natasabebinefetaguvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47823a373f---rutajipuwegajofamonij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af60c19f998---21504338112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://art-lan.ru/uploads/assets/file/metawekaremani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/sazakofesozafezexivejiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c4e3d91404---83833073143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/sulotubedurokeritosifazit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/344ad51504d6449a8126a67564049666/warogomido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097561f216b3---82984386688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radio-kum.si/data/files/28943694483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26bfcd29a9---lubase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamaconsultores.cl/upload/file/22556552414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160920cf8b76d7---bipapub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1962.com/clients/41687/File/zaviwojone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8f11381aa9---96064962796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.comarticle_ressources/file/faravufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16087d481d6455---42485476943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/455be5c17bc1caa84e8a58ad9c2b74e8/sojabisonujovaliwipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajihighfields.in/userfiles/file/63324450302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/vopep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=arithmetic+sequence+word+problems+with+answersPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000ec4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010465.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10465 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 4bf7790fe739018812d3021e4a9470a7c51cfcb5cf9d0a4affc2d89425bad130
font_02_sfnt_off00011e2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E2D 18048 bytes
SHA-256: 3ec35a7b730a31317be3a765a885961351283a3bf81c89c66de33e32ad6a50cb