Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f59d079fa51b4cbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:45:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 90235a94f274de83e95e92ba41fd8201 SHA-1: ded2a90ea79457d4804b8678fa902656b1318724 SHA-256: f59d079fa51b4cbf3dd047dedbc0434d98dc6497363cf4427c8a9066a4f3ec25
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content or redirect to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9816

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://biomisszio.hu/tmp/gupepepo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bsa-billiard.by/images_from_html_editor/file/71664756180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f0e56b027---83487396599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plastikacz.cz/soubory/files/36671944078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cac68fa9ea4---suleje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa500c0353---tewixukotibepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tdfstore.it/file/97656102078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalilak1.com/userfiles/file/8832193530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/9423230311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citygclub.com/ckupload/files/14806892037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60eda6c88d64389029a6e5b46c402b5a/siviwutozokupowireko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8124c266b4---59752588342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphjako.pl/userfiles/file/lalapunuzev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladangmimpi.com/contents//files/4957264719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd027cd19b0---sugabapaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatishev.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23881481995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44349b3b2765c9e00386a5cc451cef99/40650091820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alate.org/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/67535476804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/12294507039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c438f9a4393292c5ba04064621fd944/jafivuzuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35a8e97c15c793986c34cec46deef336/81039538536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a40b58c9b---dagitigaruvujap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iaido-iaijutsu.ru/userfiles_exc/duzifazaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u7kom3l2c70mr96nodhtfut3l2/86490702714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infiniteprospects.com/FCKeditor/file/84642299693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3630241540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=herpangina+pdf+%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B7%E0%B8%ADPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cb9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB9F 10232 bytes
SHA-256: 8f6392efae36cb04486a3b889f43af1be3c0765ba69b5f00e9fd98fc897eb1fb
font_01_sfnt_off0000e261.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE261 16556 bytes
SHA-256: 6047e339cc1a928b9d0c3722e20aabbd6e8adaca3141acde2b06fc655577817e
font_02_sfnt_off0000f986.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF986 22352 bytes
SHA-256: fb2c803d88a438a50dff23274de04d80696fd12214bde0e6fce0ca1fd392289a
font_03_sfnt_off000132b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1