Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c59920404641daf1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-14 12:30:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 17c91ad5994587087449e87a99a2753d SHA-1: a8243d19ca61b048f84bb048958e3384dc106837 SHA-256: c59920404641daf1c20374e59aba9c819a45e6782c81b63c76770644b45a583f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests a tactic to obscure the true destination by using link farms on disposable domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tubidy+music+download+2020 PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--66-6kc8bfmkmjd.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jigivopozekikadija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1akwe.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/nikagubipuwebojumavanovik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://25630638.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/minozidolikasusaxopivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservativista.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lowewelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olech-rzeszow.pl/userfiles/file/68281434545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonioloclaudio.it/userfiles/files/66932032528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betsin.org/userfiles/files/82739202529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131091c5f21c---19722856354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/pibewodem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80age2amlc.xn--80adxhks/pics/images/file/nexubidezepuxogutivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podereilmontaleo.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/gasebag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranduongauto.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/ponopetifafosijowefuroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centonze-vini.com/userfiles/files/39090259299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chothuethietbi.info/img/files/vodimugimese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keongracun.org/contents/files/fewagijuwenukaranigupax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhouseschool.com/rockhouse/uploads/files/donojubavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b38af1c352b2c21dc5e0b3909ef9b3e3/49324007720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70894110917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/93623933841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blv.by/upload/editor/files/dupowaguwikimezexoxaxemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agriplan-rs.com/dados/ckfinder/files/53940970997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plymouth-logs.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35677516202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettrungson.com/media/Files/jitejobazutelazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konakelektrik.com/userfiles/file/48353144476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613904f94bc1b---52743993938.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_off0000b87e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB87E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d090.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD090 16484 bytes
SHA-256: 82be0f0e01559a73209680b63f16bbbc59fc173332017535fe3bfbb0629eb2e6
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB03 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 16835f2da7e2ea92c9aa814354f317932125cc277cd845b39ae246af639988a1