Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e59bc7249aae3d66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 20:01:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 904e47fcb334c2f6780510e46eb19973 SHA-1: 70ae323735c2762035026757b63314f253a4280d SHA-256: e59bc7249aae3d665ff667007805eb7cca800b185963d6842646cb5657995225
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination or host malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=traveller+b1%2B+student%27s+book+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • http://hantechwelding.com/userfiles/file/2021090608350873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141432d4a6e9---53387627924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yugang360.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908015225755464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienbao.net/uploads/files/69016672830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cpc-serbia.org/js/files/zebujinapinonux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gatewayhotelbangkok.com/upfile_hotel/files/fobodukuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a61f5b1064781681502adf07a0f81e09/wadefelosivimoxotutaturin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cupta.org/userfiles/files/20210902141158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolphinsolutions.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24224151941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130c0a362b96---65924820372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocep.org/data/userfiles/files/55364839825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakesushilakehavasu.com/uploads/files/negijuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorinaldibedin.eu/userfiles/files/22195761664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136f5c00d7f6---talijanexukix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quanhoangtsi.com/upload/quangtri/files/41321865212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confeccionesruiz.cl/UserFiles/File/taguwejudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baohanhranghm.com/upload/img/files/52215933574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmeticdermatologymiamibeach.com/uploads/data/files/rurobojibekitetatideja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ag4d2vto3isk9qu5lnhv94e9kf/rigaxexeberevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6b8ce8ab18d18dee27cca9c2abefb60/88201260921.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_off0000edfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDFE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010615.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10615 10796 bytes
SHA-256: a95d611c2a60ef53036536694ba0d5602ca99536a2e5b3a64d64c589ad213402
font_02_sfnt_off00011f4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F4C 18656 bytes
SHA-256: ce59b9d9b5d20f6a6bfedfcc4dfb7f3ccbd79a459d0161702d0e251559ec1cb2