Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58b0d0fd3aec3045…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-10-08 21:03:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: f2cb30febe60556ae8abeb69464866bf SHA-1: 6be6afbe64dc14b55a54ae44eb3705cbaf0fc61a SHA-256: 58b0d0fd3aec30453609e6094cebf7ae38890390573b50fce768de9b67067340
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to various domains, suggesting an intent to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The presence of a raw IP address in one of the URIs further increases suspicion.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+know+if+someone+is+emotionally+manipulating+you PDF link annotation
    • http://seoulgreeter.com/userData/board/file/31512716661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscbolivia.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/67344221210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/lubam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songod.vn/uploads/image/files/72947954314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circuitoinsulargc.com/documentos/file/pizuwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podereilmontaleo.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/vifunozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regionalhealthprogramsww.com/images/file/zogokotalulebabebas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.net/userfiles/files/94917258798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolauniversale.it/userfiles/files/54792841422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142291ee28df---gakegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d64a036344---tijot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saktigroup.in/uploads/81561313614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://185.33.116.145/~acus01/upload/files/26061137080.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://anapro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95296839666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitchensofdiablo.com/upload/file/detujonosutodarinez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxqzx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210917_134221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiphongcontest.com/images/files/fakigupuvitibenus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriggio.it/userfiles/files/kexanofiresikevisigozas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p9b5l808lmvbv80i3ua0ao24f1/fepipidigegowof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ao4v2u8psaroot6jb0li50kr8l/pazakanogonefukikotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f76fb80ad6---daxizosiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksboutlet.com/file/files/jutubulejobepebibujife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titusauto.hu/kepek/file/nawugimigevaxomibifeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoraccessories.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/56686789054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146c92955a55---17070757168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gitimohammadilakhimpur.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83465886985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d0ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0ED 17848 bytes
SHA-256: e33a8d01e3f2c87bae3e73de77b5a874c67126ea0d00d960cba5b30bc6183b80
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF37 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 7598553f25242ee58e9022a8fab430ce018675156373941365d3cbf5f806f030
font_02_sfnt_off000118c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1