Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d59bbb0db6430893…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-08-06 08:13:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f8400af277db0fec6ac50077567be832 SHA-1: 53de64740e9c2445a1fb8fb42adcaea21984e1f8 SHA-256: d59bbb0db6430893deb8027c6f82d23f4aa1d67f83f03d05b07031a22370cee2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely intended to host malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate a deliberate attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

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://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc4bfa2ffd---19420282930.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843008ebdd7---80535683553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fcksa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tezabepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7bd81925b9---zulul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/258599492347afd34d81f0e7fc6f9233/82777749880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2990d76e23482d83a1b2705b428579a7/20717436212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65e2f8a9a04a591afa71f91d560f97f1/98926090991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hawks79.com/clients/85064/File/58918407385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/96272085030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soltendance.com/stockages/files/lufolubamopivojanog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/tewanitusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/85972545153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d22474009f---rijijem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richfield1962.com/clients/4/47/47516dc9824f3897220912ef171c404f/File/lowawakalixubelapabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94dcf0206d4205a981b950ca756d0013/dukimuvatukasexexomogexid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///28199590332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sfilatinogourmet.it/file/48004770999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b22efbd526---ruferaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df72777d95e---xadexeburav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetburden.com/upload/users/files/96824154531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winterwonderlandzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/16559229775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaszemin.com/files/towebalirolakegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=wings+of+fire+book+14+summaryPDF 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_off0000f561.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF561 10980 bytes
SHA-256: eed0dcc45187e435dcac880c9693446a2f9db095872135eb0900403a99d758c9
font_01_sfnt_off00010efa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EFA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001270c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1270C 17296 bytes
SHA-256: 68dfba296a44989ea16c10ca674c6f071d4750dd0cd1b81bbe088a3a21a9ea23