Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d58a534cf826d7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-08-01 11:01:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 0dd36b44f250b9bb72bafc6ab8b05acc SHA-1: 153ba8baa8c1c1b180824da4fb85840c598a071e SHA-256: 1d58a534cf826d7aff68c569b3dda549722e31cd337e314806ee91edfa22085f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malware or submitting sensitive information. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of multiple links on potentially disposable or compromised hosting supports the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://radio-salsa.com/php/rs/filesupload/file/49854143891.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amblesidewindermere.ca/fckuploads/images/file/66518553334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a103007cc79---66435286028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodymindspiritconnection.org/clients/5/53/53f1eac0d8ee32431a47b4e1af774f29/File/fexibibuzurowex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073baca50d06---zurowaripeliluwoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8itrbkrr9tj67cjc9a88r2vkuu/83800525208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurtoglumob.com/upload/file/59960142794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inter-travel.hu/_user/file/wuvafudafibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia.eu/upload/files/3801387350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/kosopusudixezebel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-3/20210503074927776264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160f736d75fccb---94172966173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.it/upload/gekow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d18275f7ed7d1326b64bcf42335cd60/16302165772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzsvybbs.at/userfiles/file/66775960177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9797cb675d721ac328a811e0ad8d8d02/mowigelizodunomiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa49f6fc510eb6c24aaad12678ed6ba4/bugil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m9q7nttrmor7ie46ahfa5s5aq1/fuzibowovitagalidat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3154d5332---zavepok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607390a220691---89495683644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/499658966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/savotajevasipar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m1fcjhnhophrpg5vrih694mpq2/gonufufomudinimixure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=bedava+pdf+kitap+indirPDF 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_off0000dc34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC34 18928 bytes
SHA-256: dc955853d8e9de68cf6550ae31f189bf88d2091aca7dbd22e43237758af67fae
font_01_sfnt_off00010a1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A1F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012236.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12236 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 937383e0372c9d7170fed4401e7783642a46525fbca186dd1a078673eb348d6d