Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58733507fc05cd19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 22:55:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 473c672ac59954371be8ea86d66ca46f SHA-1: 58e8762f4d8abf445f4d7fe31f580061adb0063c SHA-256: 58733507fc05cd19b829b35f74f7abe4750623273e43241cefa7c89ec79280ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites. Several of these URLs are hosted on compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for information. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=online+diopter+test
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/38144639599.pdf
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a965b62741---bekuxubomi.pdf
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b5990c4433---nawufufarapifog.pdf
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47e84f3d54---376061150.pdf
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090fed8c2250---boferul.pdf
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/8888726227.pdf
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210616192238.pdf
    • http://overtonnation.com/clients/f/f9/f97855507a39dfa58978186db9bff07a/File/sutizuxob.pdf
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c095eef6207ef3da4c500e4665409aa0/98173169746.pdf
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3e84dd640---68203327828.pdf
    • http://greenbiotech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/refonokixew.pdf
    • http://gsmontaggi.it/userfiles/files/28378738669.pdf
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eucrjc7m18esu6td9fcbk50ck1/tukolud.pdf
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nmnej5clklc1h00eqcn5jr58o0/87198877203.pdf
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607674966ebb8---62249867516.pdf
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bbvjfpudrduu35110tt7ggu8q/pazifanolulowasej.pdf
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/leji04hf9boqbfujq8fimlilau/padigofabovezo.pdf
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/tokosuvo.pdf
    • http://illinoislivestock.org/userfiles/file/92111510700.pdf
    • https://vntdc.com/upload/fck/file/3250759080.pdf
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b113bc6c420---22138972295.pdf
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1cavm16jtp4c95aohhgd6gg66/13227088915.pdf
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99548dc850aeb7cac381db7d58878023/49518124996.pdf
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd2bec7c187---fijilalekopo.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee66.bin
00964d8dc74a00712042a38b7ac7c0bab38bf28f5ee9dd9c92b7dc9ba74c47f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE66 17464 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011c3c.bin
cc2b2c1537e8dfd1b87e40575f4bf98d59ea2b7718bd914763efb3a27e943a91
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C3C 10248 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013358.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13358 16792 bytes