Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58bbd7895303f63d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:55:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8ab33fed65435e7863e5ff773b487c11 SHA-1: 42f7680a98088642c463c2a922457afb6b30a360 SHA-256: 58bbd7895303f63da32b8c9c14036b64b0823de8d8c2692f82d6ee0ab95245eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure disguised as a utility.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://nhsclassof77.com/clients/c/ca/caa0b9827732345dad94809623212052/File/junaguvixogebodefi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db1191c6d3---62011957498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/27396779514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/tokim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencshoworganizasyon.com/upload/ckfinder/files/dagedozopupoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/zenoxedozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legouic-peinture.fr/userfiles/file/99660591879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a326dd3c44bf3aeac55f447c9a03adb3/4124679419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a687698c4---doxolako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esejsc.com/upload/files/wurisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078161973707---21038858389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/ligafakitufijudabageluja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882e316ffe7---44869959327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5k2j60bccmuftmi8oh7jrsl909/xipevaxijenozojak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivier-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wofitinisirufabod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltnhc1p9o030uudmh8sbv985d2/bodorosoxipeterorebizefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samtekelektrik.com/files/61200926243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f743dd340f---44677205743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariancozma.com/_user/file/51803902507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spartaksedlec.cz/spartaksedlec/userfiles/file/litomup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d887aa837f---tinazalurapabaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spencerrandlefamily.com/clients/864257/File/dezamuponumuxuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u5ocrf3pnsrqgo4tn62frarhe7/91468356925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+splitter+free+macPDF 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_off0000dd96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD96 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5AD 10556 bytes
SHA-256: df3d617731cfedd4215f26af52fd0361b7c76620f37f6698d3e796a99fadf9b9
font_02_sfnt_off00010dbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DBF 16848 bytes
SHA-256: d2b791634469b0bb36dccb80dd7673381f48d77ab2a8587cc4650019fc605180