Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc59caba2658dce0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 09:47:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 42d01d6fcf6ce9f3dfb4a805144810bb SHA-1: caa622b07df11427d7eeaddf9a3d79b81444e316 SHA-256: dc59caba2658dce070ed023ab2f81b60133852d6d0a1671a4c5edcb659479395
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=medieval+period+music+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607197c9d0f8c---movizopuxonabuxidake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/tiwixomofufunomej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zagazzo.com/userfiles/file/janakugoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.info/userfiles/files/kofise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citadelcaralarms.com/userfiles/file/rasemawib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomasgearon.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/91917974669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lungshingcentre.com/userfiles/22872003434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ayurmitra.com/files/file/72564332354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tapestry.cz/images/file/files/namaxinipelavopixutasito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhs63.org/clients/8/88/88ec95b665b56da82b1de85f097fba10/File/80809748798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemwares.com/userfiles/file/33674980503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/56737382945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semangkabiji.com/contents//files/55880025450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coimbatorepressclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/18111605614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/56117179708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bedandbreakfastchia.it/userfiles/file/xaxitafatefozaxefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linker-apps.com/files/lumenerezosudetezixata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogaschoolofkerala.com/photos/editor/files/dojijozivosefawira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiehuist.com/userfiles/files/90935152933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-v-v.dk/userfiles/file/14343052328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirmazandaranihospital.com/ckeditor/files/files/45381590372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1829c60d1fa0d2f175c6642e00842ba7/sunuvasorunikavalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titusrelay.com/clients/e/ef/ef304ccc03541e9e6382bef5f13b0a7d/File/19442982407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91fd29d2b6f7daac9fb3051d37083e42/29367864370.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_off00010671.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10671 10736 bytes
SHA-256: d4e62d9a62ee4597eb6d7c1922a01f3d43ef8f6fc45e3cf6dd60bd916a7e036c
font_01_sfnt_off00011f24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F24 18856 bytes
SHA-256: d09fe6e1d2496a06bc17853d7fbd289277d944abaca1d5bcca6813f76f9825f8
font_02_sfnt_off00014fe6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FE6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1