Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58a59fd9ad989bdd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-26 01:49:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d9177808a621df5967f01f1ed97751d2 SHA-1: 6f5c1e292b6d45f45e112c950c387bff83e39888 SHA-256: 58a59fd9ad989bdde3c06df7599b93d560cc456fc66e54bb27aebf709356b09b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The embedded JavaScript is a common technique for initiating malicious actions within PDF documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://eastmangroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fukuwe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132154882fce---19424330049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bbda5ab052---33322362903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korsorlampang.net/user_img/files/27699031069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coaching-scolaire.net/userfiles/file/35596623835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reclamesticker.nl/images/uploads/file/In PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d3ff9627a4---96651225483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alasclub.gr/neuro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57763394109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn----htbdepbihnfb8cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33242850227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/purofomer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/93603256170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aroma-es.red/yamituki-n/uploads/files/52269263160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carshopm.com/js/upload/files/5051916894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delaneyllc.cfonewsletter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mivobefogamarejono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwrosedale.com/uploads/files/39535686544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mahanakhon.pacedev.com/ckupload/files/popumimuwavevijiker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aab03b4b31---dakojekujetodominerelex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozkayalartrans.com/userfiles/file/35957059476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-wesam.com/userfiles/files/91193124784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semangkabiji.com/contents/files/fekudiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/wotefitigamituk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://officeharbor.com/pdtInfo/85684199735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbrf.com/files/fckeditor/file/1332070410614eeca6ea83f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corumosmanlimakina.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dokosotatuzize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htbestcomputer.com/media/ftp/file/98529417744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+minecraft+mods+on+androidPDF 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_off0000b1c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9D6 15620 bytes
SHA-256: 76b2e6fe2e54d56379b59429548e7217bcde1c1057bbfab4145be6f6947ee12d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f19b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF19B 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 6b523209e96db54198dfffa6920faaaf084511a642600aa2518b69a82a2beaa0