Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 258d9b77bbfae0f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-08-25 20:29:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d8eba3b465a364e25b516b1eea19e387 SHA-1: 5abf2209ebcb9ca2ccd31f79300d077f7710a732 SHA-256: 258d9b77bbfae0f1ff36ed2a09dadb17da55f68a60085c139bda5cedff161691
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=parousia+meaning+in+english PDF link annotation
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6gmrh45c20kclndvo3t6gqrkfu/gufobevasavugupabipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a19db48dd2---17991944517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencshoworganizasyon.com/upload/ckfinder/files/gubejuwidaxesakaludel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960aaeddaf2---fuxuxotupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87695452857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marupyara.com/fotos/userfiles/file/tubegofipedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a37294db1---didekewepobexag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5febb504a730af001907412be29cf8b1/tafedevedujuxirekidonokol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb89339d91---jemafexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termofriz.rs//files/14945721458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/tisevezumupas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b8e8cdaed---50193940749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fo-prefectures.com/pages/files/89617791585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tylbm.com/Upload/ckeditor/files/70342562104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/70637859916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54f9e850a03a4bdb06e4d40f26c701e4/68093201188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpmoto.biz/upload_picture/guzumum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/62691575331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/72110161137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e3bad2750163c32de92e1f7e3a2c04c/70912223282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6b91878af5---povuxijemaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5785be59056f221a0b0f1d2159301036/49729259472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/2021430732297482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dc29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC29 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 586c1636c86c8b615ef09a32dd2e50ea31dcba99dae681d34a61820f41001bd2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010c0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C0C 2848 bytes
SHA-256: 2cad935daa21de290e618241e27fe902bdbc74c42b3609415ad558374cef8d0d
font_03_sfnt_off0001179d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1179D 30680 bytes
SHA-256: f3609a1c5e13cdeddad3b61a92440a768daa268918a02eba411ac1dc1f5c1faf