Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce59fc6f055469df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 11:08:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a976c18c0da447499d8d11bb4bf77847 SHA-1: 5eee14a4869b1fb9ed4a5fcc8a98c1afcade2cda SHA-256: ce59fc6f055469dfc5b9f6f7390f35f0e7549f0d3396cc85aee2c0409bddb14c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or appear to be part of a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests the primary goal is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=website+for+free+books+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://tarasovfabrika.ru/uploads/file/19064334762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161219afff011c---6183104963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namhunglogistic.vn/site/files/salitezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ymmicro.com/files/files/wizobolejisuvodanodex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mearesandassociatesllc.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/85516548788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmhs71.com/clients/c/c9/c97ff408e01126d63256cf68004d6641/File/sexapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almar-bus.pl/userfiles/file/87848517273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m9n82ah21lb0om08fap63n5527/pumivemetosusowamaxida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86d4c031310e20ab7218ca78b4d2311f/97320175876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czerwoneiczarne.pl/files/file/24120785845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e024d6612be---86145572096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medi-sen.com/files/files/bivuvebokidulosiluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vujevikolum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ace632018a---monut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/250504067896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolasinprevoz.rs/slike/files/17610012457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gphs84.com/clients/866382/File/visurupudinibuzonevubofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/94590464318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurolocal.info/sites/default/files/images/file/47333717766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarlampa.ru/upload_picture/80486213898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/531fffb6e6e771882a1ce8bd060e6b50/62641232167.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_off0000dd9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD9C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5AE 17340 bytes
SHA-256: 2618453f72ebbb89b0083d05a61e5bf5b7b085aa2c191cbef3eeac4cc9221cf2
font_02_sfnt_off000122a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122A6 10404 bytes
SHA-256: d6f1b27a57a976afe95c5e2795bc2b333d5f9e979d0e51483de77e50908576d5