Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c59a5c14d5b66a18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:57:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 8f0b55f573dc6ec6e48de167fc6a8a88 SHA-1: 7b77813bd635fff139149f44093ff833046222a2 SHA-256: c59a5c14d5b66a1845d004251c4d2dac4c20dbd85ffcdcffbe76657857e5cc99
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. Several heuristics point to the file being part of a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs, while numerous, do not contain executable scripts, but their presence on potentially compromised sites is suspicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2104fa4ef3---67255659850.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///kezikofow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210525032036607221134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108a44ad4729---mupipesupebemale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/rezelazegibivimolabubel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://memsports.com.br/admin/libs/ckeditor/ckfinder/files/pijunatunux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g27ma3bljrr0ir23lsukeo01ir/47348111627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cnn-logistics.com/asset/files/zekisivejuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tumukigoromu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theelementrama9.com/userfiles/files/73224406006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilliantsolarpaneling.com/userfiles/file/37299973176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607404a625f6a---gakaxogesuvutixikajeliziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nulifeus.com/~nulife/userfiles/file/datosusibovax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voxel-avocats.fr/uploads/file/zifuresezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e7ea3b489ac5605ea102308df685e3f/zujidadefadokisalevizoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbuffalowings.com/uploads/files/nagefuligimabetanumabevar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimobertoarchitetto.com/userfiles/files/lujexewakoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghaija.com/userfiles/file/winotuxinalitusij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160980918938d6---64002064661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinazzjx.com/d/files/wutaximoraboligi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/62969136551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/vilawazema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/rofirexewudip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elmaga.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/48247109504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geo-decouverte.com/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70786189757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoatuoi360.vn/uploads/files/19356639473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=chicago+style+reference+generatorPDF 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_off0000f0e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E7 18280 bytes
SHA-256: d6946b92aa6f000405da1db7f5a4ed2635a662b3a3fd2adfc4a915e9d0ce3fa4
font_01_sfnt_off00011ff7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FF7 10760 bytes
SHA-256: c0232a48958a1118add70f2a6b9cc080964eeaa61ec8f7dc7adaaa9df3d29682
font_02_sfnt_off000138c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1