Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 585158b339c9146a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-07-28 11:41:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2f4d9bbed032459831d249a3b7104b4f SHA-1: 2095cb109f013046fc39ebcb016fc3aa38003d2d SHA-256: 585158b339c9146a60756527b89aa0c1182f1a913b5d939a2ce7eaa40897520f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL structure and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://traffictkt.com/viking1/uploads/files/gikojesewewotaxofomus.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d112937653dc950cb1a68995de814824/14174104978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5145518eba701e63b96d06df66902053/zapunitarifipugogafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-harmonics.com/upload/files/golerazoturomisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797e686eb03---xufuxaxerolifugedumox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/05/21/file/20210521_133433_103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/638d22bee494f704ad40c278b2a9282d/fevetavaguselasejirodite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8c41ec5570---gopexetediwivubopemod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba57a747e5---koxosasemusawolew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873d4ab1a8c---piwegagipabawana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/gezov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6530aa8dc4---fuzux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/37061559563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/872a8822c6bd1e14172154bf04f48086/90804397433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/medinadofuvuxofegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camionespanamericana.com/userfiles/file/vojodijizuxovoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhiringisamsankalimandir.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58160884282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuttydog.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21977787344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4422447237d6977524ee608eb7d2ae39/84835771790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwplazaview.com/uploads/files/1497209388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e76609fb0cbda6df4994bca517a8780/57401649287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duxirubalebarupujoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgindustrial.eu/userfiles/files/48992709151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=palayathu+amman+hd+video+songs+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000e736.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE736 16236 bytes
SHA-256: 6967dca3adc1982b19c75eee5c60e7755c406f625074e2cec9bb7a28a489912e
font_01_sfnt_off00011169.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11169 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012980.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12980 11168 bytes
SHA-256: d08a9f58abaff120e344aaab97e8d7dacaa7f916ba2dec2b2275078f71f73ce2