Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f59fdf3c4d28922f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 18:08:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 058eb1cfab57634bdd731d8789b7bd64 SHA-1: d17c451d85be310e3fa20e7cecf9756fa99c8957 SHA-256: f59fdf3c4d28922fffb448605e70afa488ff2e1c16f81a7c5d411b57e5b6b8f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the link structure is sufficient evidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f44a9a33d24db61341c1135085646be/58721566793.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mides.vn/images/ckeditor/files/91200620453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hf1968.com/clients/48820/File/lijet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogoducthien.com/uploads/files/87287444587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://italvaping.com/file/89589924707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9db5d795cf2c1e59ea483e1a78aee329/dirukez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/wewinilatijod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tilestone-pools.com/i/File/84150266169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/61291191305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c29b46883fd27bf3a20593c934d18a5/11329424187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fffe7b34b2---5186241973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9vvtq1n6k9ekto5tt4c4c7nff/wudamuluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4a750839190d767d1b370a74ea5769d/livixesagululex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a23be939416---21718947067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863e52ef50f---2424925158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad458c56d8ffc1f823644b03ffedf443/latisewiwufinuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b866931273---pisupexuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaandtiarasottawa.com/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/bobobuvevogikoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/69630787051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a88a1b800---mibokekepetumuginofaxezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumkin.ru/files/files/58276050548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cc3accbe49cf24c68e3a735cad05b76/vaketosesilev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2ok0gam0o19baa51tdlgu3j1f/sibase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/dezed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=all+i+want+for+christmas+is+you+piano+easyPDF 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_off0000ef7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF7C 18588 bytes
SHA-256: a513450aa94392742d5e22a11432e96b6430d194d7cae213ebf38ab6fa359a92
font_01_sfnt_off0001204f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1204F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13866 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 446b0956e4a5ee39c514d7ed5dde5c39f07614d63d71411dc34d8708251bffb2