Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58363757fd763e3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 15:43:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2c0611a1181f5fedb575812a6d2932c6 SHA-1: b1990dd923bc6dafd44bb309eaaadd214f407ebc SHA-256: 58363757fd763e3aecf0183b6b5b1f624c708b71ba1eb376ab27169ffea7be79
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to exploit users through indirect redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.me.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210807_132626.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsdienst4you.de/bilder/file/futuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7m55b8s680s2hoic5854c2a794/fomewoposibexaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c5ef3435c---nuluxekawufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/40237872972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oteliapelsin.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29523194713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berallebags.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210802061700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2e5c793dd1abdbc1cbd079f94eb9349/50031140948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6ae543b736b48f4b1340b5193c9f857/47497556082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b03dfk6f4dqskfkoalmlgq2p07/loxenipivilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/telasuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfe78ec5f3d---koniligorapovarirapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-6/file/gowulowitixatuzorona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e52ljgrrf271d948mqmovrlrtf/jotibugigolimekezapup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i64pa5qehpint8odhlg7rm82o4/zexulojurovibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/166df3d26d3a725c6680c59de08b09b7/32245164080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkipt.com/_UploadEditor/files/76090725520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/71521049416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c13ea4723585b0e24bdcdc31edc7a5ed/buguniwarexetapex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q1h0408vu2oukg7jc5g7j1m4cd/22384827305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0694acb6aa---wetikibuvuxubuzupuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlmarinefuel.com/userfiles/file/44078590293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4d8f4f584---pofuvibunujezuwok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1086021233a7a09e7211f05ade51b691/makutele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turdv.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/muniditub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=habilitation+%C3%A9lectrique+personnel+%C3%A9lectricien+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_off0000c2b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2B7 11144 bytes
SHA-256: c329b0fb7a30b0fdc297ace9a4a3d59ffb6ee69917379dd8bc38866bf66914b4
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC19 16832 bytes
SHA-256: da627441da00368d47070cbda0f003a72b471bf5de9818383c17cda2eb1fb193
font_02_sfnt_off0001058d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1058D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1