Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58885f8d5209d5ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

121.1 KB Created: 2021-07-19 15:07:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 85ed354f5b6aaa2a4cf9a13a91ff1715 SHA-1: ec5305723ad84979cacb8dbf5a9ff8389f8fc08e SHA-256: 58885f8d5209d5eab380f2148e6a57a9f4d481dce21fc55ffc00273dde40bd44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://carefirstwalkathon.com/clients/8/89/89514deb4c0e8807eb046cac28c4977f/File/litavugoruwobolibe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://refta-bg.com/userfiles/file/wegosumaxebinutogoreban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a45d79ac7e0c7b7eb9952d1d1d080ed3/30755583460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a51df8313c---gekorunudutotuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a436ad56678---48611099000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/sobemitalawul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mecaniquekd.ca/upload/file/pikazimute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771be5bc489---92793284668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/jagozevadotinumaturovel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021060702295726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonioruizabogados.es/userfiles/file/15844498147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canionglobal.com/FCKeditor/file/mamagenopidodanovaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f58f7475a9---46264379747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aucdi3kc1ta16mbq9g6p3eoru6/7359951089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bm0pghsl6mkoq7ierlckvf5kfp/musozugizuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/286b84704fadbbcda0fa9a3843b64448/lurepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a0452ce24f1fb9f2978f5ae04699939/71256117588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5uah4u29indntgtpoucb1bmrd/56715513532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c08ea9a5f3e---46816763406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhf-china.com/d/files/67523071295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606de14075f24---rodemegape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e558c8b71---98057872335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infunplastic.com/d/files/59113793397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021052107414250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sgr2vor44ijucb7p06bu837dnu/wajidiramiwobatemavuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e19a41000ffc8870c47536189bb4ef38/5760405047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1620876100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=knows+the+philosophy+of+immanuel+kantPDF 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_off00017812.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17812 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 75634537e0ec67057b939ccd9c823bc794fbf26bb72a99cd3dcf8c53a76be1e4
font_01_sfnt_off00019134.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19134 18032 bytes
SHA-256: 2ae5cff365d80551ba6171df9e447b6ba138de27be6df6f04dd7f2d8da0aaccb
font_02_sfnt_off0001bee7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BEE7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1