Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f59fb797be7dd6a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:36:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 0e922907a7fa5c49727334dbf8931e49 SHA-1: e989287d78841718f567ec51616b462b0be0e923 SHA-256: f59fb797be7dd6a70a221c73858192cfe1e93db45aebe4de87e8abead0e2c4ff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of external URIs and a link farm heuristic points towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607afe243f9d2---zizilijaxamitewigeduguf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://korea-seals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11755226489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnsgawefgl.netsociality.com/upload/files/93195791750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tranhdaquydep.vn/upload/files/sobozogogofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verduciautodemolizioni.it/userfiles/file/53415434949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radio-aurea.eu/files/file/87503173527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n530aa1egjonav759njbk3mu0h/47714972627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-line.ca/fck_upload/file/44300604522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trouver-une-ssii.com/img/pics/files/muzawugipodelolanid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b45a0a97417---78829581384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/69974725536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grimastone.ru/files/41750081232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nagsa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pebufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honderhotel.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210727055542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8931bca901---gulebisewunanomadotadag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaas-journal.org/survey/userfiles/files/92103634711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sprostredkovanieuverov.sk/res/file/dinagixaweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/gefibarukipufizan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de565de9af---devevezixoxojosisazobex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findmecakes.com/userfiles/files/juwewipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nebovsem.ru/app/webroot/files/files/zilivuxidabotapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/nipudegupotejuxuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/47345861086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a98ae70e558---19367877792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mystruggle.uk/indigo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81478925960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=paint+circulation+system+pdfPDF 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_off0000c983.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC983 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e19a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE19A 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 40bf3fa7dec6cd4fcb18dfba3fa31927a71cd17213ab0f62c0bb549391bf794a
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB2D 18316 bytes
SHA-256: 4b5c9397d8145a707973bfef04a3eefd1b6a971e49aab0fe5af2811d6e7bc012