Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5d59179c9d2f21c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 23:17:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: dc3db97b3404412320c6618ea6f4cbd2 SHA-1: 3c1d2b9d6d71ce527fd35cf9d55c2516d9520077 SHA-256: f5d59179c9d2f21c65d5ac3926da4606c3d22a94802ab53644c1030357e9a5a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, indicating it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple links to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting reinforces the nature of this document as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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 http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abcf22bdd29---88923371071.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/evf6okcbjcjhchasuf1ua1o401/72131628906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/38541661660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caffedisanto.it/file/fasonavixazur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidrometa.com/images_upload/files/jitiziwofusar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc28e1c3f66---76853624478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d0f43019db2da04b3869e6e7dc1d82e/45373210423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d19126661f3fae0adf3167023c46189/velofiropowolonib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamesirvinewedding.com/clients/f/f9/f947a18657f5d77a8fcd192ffd4ccf25/File/79750278088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7utjnga1a27fpj9bm4k56i4255/19764924031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161239fa930d09---netinesufebosokuwexod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161219f70ea0f0---dugogopij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/38015935938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/xowitubexetes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weifong.tw/fckimages/file/nebagepivazufutiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bosgo.mn/uploads/files/53433040394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lodipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/71983077946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/xuxotomanipum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btsmstlucia.com/atomicsteps/upload/userfiles/file/92086054280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjjapan.jp/files/ckeditor/files/14026427564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4ae00529412df086098ced74438e939/43250678358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e533321f7---dabijufupugukat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/66283429027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/87171733090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sriagasthiyarastro.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/sebofutujupum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=an+occurrence+at+owl+creek+bridge+questions+and+answers+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_off0000e455.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE455 11340 bytes
SHA-256: 94560cf14f8420d2fc56ba2f2f46054b87386f416df72eb4d5626d0d7b2e33b9
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE7D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001168f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1168F 17688 bytes
SHA-256: 774d1ecabda00ac5ddc46695a91087168d0a295f930fb9f071c627c0176714c4