Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b59dbc0fee911904…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-08-28 04:16:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: bf96cd85348a72122fd15a435606e2d4 SHA-1: a4345bba9eb2f247dd63fe7babd5622802ec1e73 SHA-256: b59dbc0fee9119043d3b44d665c9b33aee2623d5d30d7c4800763b26125dc9d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm intended to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://vydavatelstvoklett.sk/userfiles/file/44189726892.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///fekipinebivagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consorzio-csa.it/userfiles/files/tobuwelagizuwupax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bc7ae42fa3---75545135927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://latexindia.com/userfiles/file/76938326856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anma.pl/anma_edytor/file/35450324997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dad5bb47dd---feganuwizagesabefisiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlmlaw.com/images/edit_images/file/pevod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161274dbc2fd24---tunadapitojizuvula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b839d1995f---kuxuzus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76424765285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdde47749921f62d0074fa1173ca14d9/gotusuvemopiretamubogiwow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610582a7c4be0---82968493158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/926a13b7b6639325f66e02f47807b0e7/bomifapolofexinulowevel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozszemle.hu/uploads/files/32851871272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00e90bc5e6db34ebe8dc3e55e28b05e3/lugigeziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dm3r92b0aatpv2e5rhs88bcv7/kasulop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5567def1d---91899078906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/80169064383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regmac.net/userfiles/files/30986442906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fc2ff2b0716602c3136dd577b786e47/jifaforovalobusiposo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/86592898146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982aeb7ec71---veliwibimigazifabaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b18d901a78c1a647ece377f9fb47906b/sijeniwezuzati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835a7f58f22---54305174709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=constructive+interference+physicsPDF 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_off0000c280.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC280 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000da97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA97 10680 bytes
SHA-256: bfcdafd950e7b2b7e2708d7f37f9a725124ef41dd49f127c57a52e800e12abc6
font_02_sfnt_off0000f31d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF31D 16372 bytes
SHA-256: 215e629d199d34d30d30adec1d5ffebc485a9660d1bf8b25e0dd05340b4af580