Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e59d995feaa33a97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:49:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 61c12cdd66508b083fc6435bc52933bb SHA-1: 02f137093b5a05caae2cd4db7c94466aa1026977 SHA-256: e59d995feaa33a978cc22d83920561e06f10c46c247acf97ca51450bd727bf5f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve to distribute further malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=love+your+god+with+every+heartbeat PDF link annotation
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b026c47e5a44c2edcd1dbaf9d417ee7b/85268764887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ef626e7ce---93566083770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.vn/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/43272227982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiumevivo.it/userfiles/files/nugimuvalokabulevanago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfcba97170b---36694624523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/49826809200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sokolzgierz.pl/web/uploads/files/6071705043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoverservice.be/gallery/file/63950534712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidra.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23964612894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ogugs43ahu71nv3aj86db09u5/752549117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosabaum.de/web/editor/files/dugavaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096680d2df03---18600096729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicscrm.com/img/files/85721683873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viajaconsciente.com/imagenes/userfiles/file/2896636305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cheeselicious.net/UserFiles/file/mesajonozuzenifenom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f210e99c423---22774698082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.flamanville-76.fr/upload/file/ruluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111c14e21966---jazavamifonuzamom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bbdcc8a1d0e1a0207f80f7681067ebe/keribikona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usssecuritate.ro/userfiles/file/15492501084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3p8gtun3mgoohkgnbncrkb1ii6/zofupuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wietsevoermans.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57443130358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goacetours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71982666349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf9ea94dcf---zoliponoxazusuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/kavinukafi.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_off0000b38e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB38E 14912 bytes
SHA-256: 18bdc1ce1cc5d46e83c3fb67060b13e962de097ad2e323ed67e0ce6bd5147213
font_01_sfnt_off0000d93c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD93C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f153.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF153 10672 bytes
SHA-256: e5da8844c5053525f129f441ba6ef20354078d742e4829762e49c094806f249b