Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58280b2b4bb9f5ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

150.2 KB Created: 2021-06-14 09:32:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 36cc36ac1dc857f90010aec23b1078cd SHA-1: 60c94e271d582a03957f9aac9a1b8ef7ea9f44c5 SHA-256: 58280b2b4bb9f5ea23fd08ae0ab90d97742bc61d7cac2cdb1d824639b5204345
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials. The document body itself is largely unreadable, but the presence of many external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest its purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=define+semisolid+dosage+form PDF link annotation
    • http://atsrealtyvietnam.com/upload/files/58944694221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b130fb99bfd---ranakarataputerutusop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b1d5f4dbe643419b604ca967dcf4153/10830324706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosportsante.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kevutadirosav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/metabojiruxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc7bba434e---sesitadosali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chokmanee.com/userfiles/file/sipazexivakadugeloseka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a1bda4de96442aeee780955d66ac14f/4114127868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75e0df74ac60af6545984513516d65d1/5694286615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2201239d451b48c2619ecc587a161dc9/44955880897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc88776425cf72239581d047462a83bb/vepevimidujobex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kcequipment.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6045727cb25b28187f34adb339bf4060/kufodekapoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f407cbb71a19f468f0e8bf31b3b99b81/ripaguxibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rta6o0obuparmk8qatv84tnb54/21972248822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f818c6a695---nijedipadiwopifedexavob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdhsalumni.com/clients/28864/File/vagasojifel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6056a5954d1e4c76dda0bc8e4f59ddb/weterewavivafunefodetoxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nceh96m5b2lo3g39utorr69fnt/puwufunozixipamajejefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f5cae3e2e---94686554432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0002035a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2035A 4932 bytes
SHA-256: d39210b7c751c8967c47701a5cd710b563886d211b9ff297c171243cd22b9b45
font_01_sfnt_off00021405.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21405 12056 bytes
SHA-256: 8b0d570ad98b995307658e9c7c8d366e4ef6562496de3bedb6685976b738d433
font_02_sfnt_off00023d08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23D08 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361