Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58b14172a58e3705…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 03:57:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ad682e372faaf985deddafadf88b0726 SHA-1: 9ed4ab42e36044f954df65a894d54a03daa5819f SHA-256: 58b14172a58e3705e566a58f606aaeef7f609c0ac13d0b45b659f979fd0f6109
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting further suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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
  • 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 http://www.physedu.in/newsite/userfiles/files/xutadeguvuvaligu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7pg2ipr0guhe94q62t6imaok4r/55392302709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietnamwelder.vn/uploads/news_file/29775130500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5998d16a5b101f8c07ff1b3951b99671/zabodowepatexif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095dc91cf5b4---10152348108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papinchess.ru/userfiles/file/sekunitasuvuxinojideveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rzfmuhasebe.com/userfiles/file/3365500591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eblmbk6s9c33nqkj7gsdg0adb2/50785169092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/449dded79dba9131f82f42b8c9710433/lilepuzexewufutunemisamul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d67ef66a5e2---36169355118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtsp.by/userfiles/files/kewugipidiped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drairtools.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49303029474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/72146868033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcoolassistance-creuse.net/www/site/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3123005430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stin-verdon.fr/assets/Image//files/sotorifanizisuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51784112033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-him.ru/userfiles/file/ropemekarifabowegug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a22ab6816c---43254740106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorp.pl/userfiles/files/gifuganutufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073cd3579ef8---70098990951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160979cc8ed44c---26208978221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bike-aholic.com/UserFiles/file/talifusodesob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/mokedijow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangmalungtea.com/userfiles/file/kupasogupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=spirit+animals+rise+and+fall+read+online+freePDF 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_off000122a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013abf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ABF 10736 bytes
SHA-256: d8e1cad2dd5e5c795bf79feaa83ce753c0350250a8217acb31ba6e82367401f0
font_02_sfnt_off0001535a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1535A 17624 bytes
SHA-256: b20a9dda77537828a283d38291add120d41f5111a0aa6ffec473c20c5bb2df40