Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58a0a57979deb814…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-08-23 17:14:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dee9d716ddf035b6bc07db5988413a67 SHA-1: b5c374c125de69277bb76f44e15672bca37382a5 SHA-256: 58a0a57979deb8143dcf31a1f50aa12e2d42a6131efdf0f44eb36c236f0a94c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics indicate the PDF is a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous unknown URLs hosted on compromised sites strongly suggests a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9884

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.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05a0643691---30792760477.pdf
    • http://coeb.eu/userfiles/files/70303873381.pdf
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085739ab7464---badegozefatikezimel.pdf
    • http://dmscsmartlifeblog.com/userfiles/files/zugujewofabedajo.pdf
    • https://orldoc.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m0sf2rm63ikodv9i93qnr5ah50/27745571137.pdf
    • https://finances-canada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4b6b3f7a31f27fe905a86262a427d6a/52357097783.pdf
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a6b3c43197---renirunexo.pdf
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/jizapede.pdf
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5311483c2d---10803450410.pdf
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0a48125cdc---40778065061.pdf
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.com/file/37249246092.pdf
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/majemalejuf.pdf
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/842d00c4bc391e89c8196889fd5274fd/70742101152.pdf
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/kujogu.pdf
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ff8136e77---worigonefilegawavu.pdf
    • http://rehahomecare.com/upload/editor/files/lofarusitafegi.pdf
    • http://csc0516.com/userfiles/file/20210803180549_zkhwkv.pdf
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/85834413284.pdf
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc62bd5f332be5e258c17e2914d359ef/vakamirebef.pdf
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc6e655476---5426272493.pdf
    • https://okna-kursk.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/42100247396.pdf
    • http://qunjl.com/userfiles/files/gikupidozudefegomemes.pdf
    • https://kaptenhoki.net/contents//files/pigukiwosobazozek.pdf
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/77239119260be5350c2659.pdf
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/20214292222546655.pdf
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085fa7519319---55336325672.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=lymphatic+system+homeostasis
    • 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_off0000fc47.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC47 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001145e.bin
14a06d76840ddef6173cf3e68afddc0333c9b27636363773baef7ae9b04d7c66
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1145E 10460 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012c32.bin
ba5dd63329c655f1af552d49e4d497a15f20e0d37e29d533ef629d6e83dc8485
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C32 16900 bytes