Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d59f8d153d2005e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 13:35:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d7a072a895f7e27d385066311b8a5f90 SHA-1: d49eaaaa645680a36d999f1fea166c7b00b8a822 SHA-256: d59f8d153d2005e22c89771b027af12c9d974ebf607310e3f2cd6f878003c5e8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=enable+cookies+on+android+browser PDF link annotation
    • http://consulcongress.it/uploads/assets/file/muwibure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://codefon.hu/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18431879250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagnosticaedilizia.com/userfiles/files/lipinafosazelewomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614309168618b---binivesepirunilefadufuraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskup.pl/images/assets/file/vijopederuwuvawopifitune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90684772657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f212ba3b246cf2cc365364ca84c84ae1/pefenikefivuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fanti-fitness.pl/uploads/assets/file/kalurugixipipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2109d055ca15704011eca8181af1b27c/69633677401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holcom-wd.holcom.vn/webroot/img/files/86478361387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyuemu.net/assets/202109/files/20210918023223571636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalpr-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0451268001630670193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yifff.se/userfiles/file/vaxekofopazikufojokenerit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://west-holding.com/userfiles/file/nuxidalowezegupose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangiorgioautoservizi.com/userfiles/files/48151654073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasymusic.it/userfiles/files/beluxowanifapotumabufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1632022978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ed3e672ff1---86822684736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamboeng.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62481780647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alicekhenrylawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fikedela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stuarteisbrucklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/97989813329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrodomesticaruano.com/images/ckfinder/files/fifupime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ritadas.in/userfiles/file/somutubegelerimezojaseta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/31662442846.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_off0000d5b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5B0 17260 bytes
SHA-256: 38e9990429fecf0cad9de2e4aa9915cc8aca62a2525f8b7df7090f339c87cb00
font_01_sfnt_off000102b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B3 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 4032a088d01eca5ab1b8fc96eb4df641a72da566a54599f0428701625ba20085
font_02_sfnt_off00011af2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AF2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1