Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db7f59ed1c9c8ee9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 15:28:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a65d454eabdd5331b9ca6261914e531e SHA-1: badbaa4da7ba2b2925f6d65b6aa212960679b6e7 SHA-256: db7f59ed1c9c8ee94223afd5a53e991f2e9079e5747373b3f499114a475c4fea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malicious redirection attempt, likely leveraging a PDF exploit or social engineering.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607091d1174ce---jutasakavemezetijikivike.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chezgregoire.fr/userfiles/30539219481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolaprywatnaleszno.pl/userfiles/file/wokukorerivev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/tuwuvuvazikoraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polipadel.com/userfiles/file/80388032208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berkeleyhigh64.com/clients/9/99/99a482d4bd0dc5522cc24ea7f8204a07/File/ganomapam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f76d6d1020d42402a55210f6c6c37134/70384117990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/thcv6h7gu8jom3k2uuesbfkb76/fulowabinojipim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca67bd1d28---pazeguve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/rojoruvamuladugakadivora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a50dc6bb8d32dfb32a2485b594e4e8c/sovutowepekatokunal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838f07967bf---72622789624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roofmed.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160897fc83a33e---fugiwekunimixuval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agencement-menuiserie-var.fr/stockages/files/49519341321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consurs.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jagefudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b096c05a3---likofomadazokokozageka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rencontres-icare.org/userfiles/file/16387290717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/rejixozufem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cropscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/56871901656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092909e5003c---71706626144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesterek.net/tmp/43482107734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a0fdb01df---52901206439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c2e1c1f41---rewabewetigokapoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kkibhnrorghrcmfuicvh265m33/suguke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c293e93c1a8e3e5280889f8629a513bb/vikevemapipujenajofefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=cod+liver+oil+for+weight+gainPDF 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_off0000ebcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBCF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103E6 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 956bf4d99f448eb6c75290a16bf6d6e11201d4cf8007d5583cf3329d7eacb7b3
font_02_sfnt_off00011c0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C0C 17132 bytes
SHA-256: 6764b9581df9a29c31b8089a3d1282949454b59098ddb038dbd252709c0d746b