Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58a4e2eebda98a73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-07-20 14:43:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 0970d8cb20e16f2ce3c454d7644a48da SHA-1: dcca378839d89202b5fd2dc26fdd1948e6e93b37 SHA-256: 58a4e2eebda98a73e70bb06fdffe7ab5e34926f655d9a4a887305158bd28759e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which host further PDF files. This pattern is indicative of a phishing or scam campaign designed to direct users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6171df1972aa4f7ac3a620dbb5ee68fd/66611796688.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://soflacops.com/clients/83266/File/79374275389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7601dlna4mre73c3r0g53tie0b/mijukajobutozakopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ff-engineering.com/userfiles/files/ridikiforazurijanurozata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a53e4877a3d---pazuwuregixajirawira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/pajerijaxagitejar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210719_A4EE2A62F58A17D8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef6c26a5eda468f73159afcef0cc2ff5/nokijivubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8kte4j9ugibk63ogjd3pir44f7/83622544545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jb2dav86ifkvhf1hhe9h805bje/69122000069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/bapojenokaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annandale1963.com/clients/69704/File/56344783970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3e2d88804e---46790949349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e7f270a6d---givusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j7evlo68j9sermr36nr6svcd4g/39891341258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wolfgang-photography.com/userfiles/files/lajadutudegig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf452cf68b---vopilorav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50d196183c07334692517d5a64d761ba/78273718187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/zojijudugiromurigowuzeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thamdinhgiadaiquang.com/img/files/zafiladuvixumufif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ccad712966---vaxifad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/52920611891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dg4uefqv0qhjn54u3rclf35b2/digesinepetoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=starting+strength+conditioningPDF 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_off0000f64f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF64F 17588 bytes
SHA-256: 67da8cf2e24e520034b88f2e90a5ca0e03b6de39edef3f60dc6c9817c100669f
font_01_sfnt_off00012448.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12448 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013c5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C5F 10676 bytes
SHA-256: db10c3444081a768caa4951044238bca57cdfc33abd1fa778833a6d963647a2b