Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58ae7f71ad2c429c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:51:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 983614d9f3920f1e5d166fb5c117c165 SHA-1: 953102d5c929002a5f8007f4f52624ce017efb89 SHA-256: 58ae7f71ad2c429c5bf6a0e7b2c2777e2480c97ef21f6de270adf89abf630dbe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to domains that are either compromised or appear to be disposable, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/puwuloxozeg.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sonnenheizungen.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/64381524422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/79326888351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/57531954392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/pivodoledadogum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb47442b41a5b6ae0586fb682f7a2784/ruvedisirojuzuloxipix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7sa24dh83a4t1r2g88o5jvr9tr/12880268091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prospr.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vetugamavopajutesod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/xowajelamawuniti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/2031719495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.casasemio.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/galudojazifojotelifunago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/47393238351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35nbtb4kktfjca3d6p4peg91k1/38108834999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d51a8633db---71442501273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suruburi.net/mm/file/varotasexudalinetanarose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d26427d40a---toramuzebirope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60hq2jolot8p8mbjh4ti14mapu/zezanirekenar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4b29004cef---59928215203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d759747b44---72821193140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3na8hhuuiobariojglmemtoac9/13194819683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izr.fr/files/wexereberamux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6e9e37fe76ee198280f0893f8e7c15a/vebafupilolurupodofewem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/sediselosamititepid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3355b46bfdfb595e86ab32fc5028d935/33614488068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d60cmf245u9h88bfmt7fru8jg8/30335299575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkins1983.com/clients/861771/File/64798455098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=vagrant+story+ps1+manualPDF 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_off0000d1b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1B8 19096 bytes
SHA-256: 9e8619ae9b62a7180ada8a1bdb1f13ed99278ac1e4eb5b55347c78a59e768df1
font_01_sfnt_off000103c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011bd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BD8 10608 bytes
SHA-256: fb41ae91aa998742623ac44bd18b1b85188e656f102677771175ed3d5c60dcb6