Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58c4c96549d3f711…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 18:06:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d2c2a4f64a4eccfa004493253d18f9a8 SHA-1: 71632795845c212e8f491cd1fa3af5da5ee7de0c SHA-256: 58c4c96549d3f7118e2bb68bc9bdf2851b8acdb62b05e2d138a06f9fa2581315
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and link farms hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or SEO-poisoning attack. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9839

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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=world+of+warcraft+druid+guide
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7d444ae6da1869f6222943d30aa1747/zilavosopusasademuzujo.pdf
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fp77j51eo3iihtbrtga69n0joo/28809856608.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608926abb39fd---7425757711.pdf
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae6f249899---70362641956.pdf
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/23571941104.pdf
    • http://uniroll.pl/user_images/file/gedipir.pdf
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e215fadfa3---59405449540.pdf
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/josidobamivol.pdf
    • http://staractivecollection.com/resimler/site/files/85136521075.pdf
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cf043513ede184a5c4c7452e998e3fa/gaxuvedukaburotagejopufeb.pdf
    • http://m2mus.pro/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/63916824292.pdf
    • http://jaika.in/images/documents/files/tulejaludenakes.pdf
    • http://conflictfreeelectronics.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/renuka/file/balakaluko.pdf
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ikk3333630akeeng4t9bppnf90/19351176243.pdf
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210606_75EE814AA0FF04BD.pdf
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c91a04011bf8f5c8a267f2ead5243608/fidesuvozu.pdf
    • http://peusch.lu/userfiles/files/73350981980.pdf
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1a5262c360---jopevadon.pdf
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd42cd786343c10dae03b70466368524/pakis.pdf
    • http://sammyuriasproperties.com/userfiles/files/jizobati.pdf
    • http://uptownchantilly.com/uploads/files/gajugawafuvigux.pdf
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77edb2c35bf48c370a1583759ac77523/93930125436.pdf
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/81853492605.pdf
    • http://solarwindependence.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81685960197.pdf
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/jisuzijewamigefugul.pdf
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jmhe5jnjo2g3fp6mtm26ph7pvg/xuperefebemariwux.pdf
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83193178a4f5fab74055329a505b7015/tamiruvovejok.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001652b.bin
1894b66bd5fa2ebd91aac04e5d4a23e8708d92532899d6f3043085537b23ec72
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1652B 20040 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000198fa.bin
b698b9a123f3bd89c334a3f361598769d6438c70f2239dbd33db2c47912f9808
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x198FA 10560 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001b10a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B10A 16792 bytes