Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58220e82c9b416e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 08:44:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 10adb4f2141bc5ba0c640ee93aae4b2e SHA-1: 3393954f4ef06aaabb2e074cf7c478dfe989b1d5 SHA-256: 58220e82c9b416e7c0df638f46fcfc39d20f595b9f8ac117a896d06b5e7fb283
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other 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 structure and URL patterns are consistent with PDF-based malware delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9893

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://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/20418941428.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4a06b4238b---lasarevol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac05da40ff9---42032046710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/8061086082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161290a8d91ede---24489928401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8652a397b87f0dc0fdad4405d402dedd/41607642285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinshi66.com/uploadfiles/files/nipasidowes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vlaamspatientenplatform.be/_plugin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80997694469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djapm.com/userfiles/file/9347906985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolegium.inaheart.org/upload/files/87994717966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacinsara.ro/fckfiles/file/wuwujexasexorilexirema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hmnku0a7qe04ke8edsbeng0em3/19223281923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9352824b2---polab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607644a4affb6---vurakitafisewamikomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sallytour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210827_065E12B7B9262402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaushalacademy.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jokabawugusololexub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b4fd0ef7447700f98deaf1209a071f1/xagafineziwusomom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ac17ab093---72043104336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2c83d9cf1---16076406962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ea7bda5fe28d1fcd0689ff19db86f47/94938955787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc5b8940451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letdentalab.com/img/files/40172029586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16e2e0747c54fc994672f8e370418a20/nivetapozirefogujoxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/kafobivokejalenozaxikas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835c625d402---xonov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wphs67.com/clients/9/95/95f8299e8098c1f2c85aab0f7ead5e97/File/39017316278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=new+municipal+act+telangana+2019+in+telugu+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_off0000bcb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCB0 17028 bytes
SHA-256: 45e5421b86159a6bf53cc44fee6f78b7d02f49c6ebedcf3ef1f48c89c7cc2582
font_01_sfnt_off0000e82c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE82C 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 8d1d77928279f1ee4a7e19a61452f314b09688881fe240779ad17aa6b37c8cfc
font_02_sfnt_off00010252.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10252 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1