Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da559f55d39b42a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 03:28:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 2e0ab8366ed1d0489deb981a278c7e0f SHA-1: 3953f90cb665d8a47f3a00afc9443fd09976ed5b SHA-256: da559f55d39b42a7b06dbc69f9c41dd2f908f57a50d9929fe811c0f3ad3847d6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to external URLs, which are part of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination, possibly for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://factory-01.com/js/upload/files/59536500228.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://csp-pub.com/stockages/files/tebabunosaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smwebtechnology.com/arishayurveda.com/userfiles/file/49815817253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/428b4894a1aee10c6a2af2ab9c3ca064/98911617990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belloverde.net/emailer/file/vaxexabobaruwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wildnaturetravel.com/File/31548443137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/69886531440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ff4dd9b39a---29951550801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vallovin.it/userfiles/files/nubidoter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giaphutelecom.com/tctt/sites/aaa/file/30689412434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlmahtani.com/userfiles/files/bukafaxigupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alummaswaja.com/yii/sdbalikpapan/home/images/upload/files/xiruwofipukedafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e8c4c10d3e25b59afbbf11503cc0f99/pexidekazagig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://internationalmedia.com/userfiles/file/18808780001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/854816cd9d314466df958c276aa27c5b/wugozozilalidag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161414d8952771---dusupikakixitomapuduxivat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psk.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xodilovotevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyermekhaz.hu/Content/site_images/files/bisotomilozajonizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukkies.be/userfiles/file/19620187642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/69738291641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a9f0f297c7---kijuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baove24h.info/upload/files/65644332444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioschicchi.eu/userfiles/files/35990156557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614288979c15c---94442413134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=dizziness+after+concussionPDF 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_off0000e5f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5F0 10444 bytes
SHA-256: cc34fff6c89bcbd7105cb4ac9b8e47c80ee50162cf885f7b1d4e293e3bffcc06
font_01_sfnt_off0000fddc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDDC 16904 bytes
SHA-256: e29f59130b3d28d37327c1ac05f838a8a27f08590f8bff4a1f4368457b06a101
font_02_sfnt_off00012974.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12974 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1