Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58c50b1143d63192…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:17:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8dd6c7d546d8f66cad501d92df460f91 SHA-1: 3acd848849cac0474ff13054683beb8250503a8b SHA-256: 58c50b1143d63192c7b570d9997f0190fe8842202aef067903be42f49c5c09f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded URLs and the heuristic firings for link farms and compromised CMS uploads support this conclusion.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://abwlanham.com/uploads/files/vavorizepodatepururojok.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/90868209945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyreviveshop.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/lawes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krukewittfarms.com/userfiles/file/58060981429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lbhrs3vn9ltit38b1tb6rfg8fj/tetabodal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847172a562d---pisubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a343cbaa60d---kasiripudekiniwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/19507701017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giant-nano.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/64047215381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b614c9a099c---jazimopobijobuxumusutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fletcherfamilyreunion.org/clients/52745/File/34286791391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75985236146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a207876ac9baa555e3bb29c95f2e9026/11118451971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac41c2e2e9---64315749730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/970661a691c2b7702c2b98958f9f17f8/zuloxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keralatemples.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zikaziponanizarad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b56d6a5c93a---39843996114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rewaqousha.net/userfiles/files/birusesiraduwitek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebrates.com/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/vezofonomawuvunazugijeliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ltptech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/61262119178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hse.tw/upload/file/93074132426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcountryawningsandsunscreens.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078178a465f5---86713213156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorce-difficile.fr/userfiles/file/86782737219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095bb0a0b0bf---50541162101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2s6jtfucvrf52620rtuo0hffe1/6935327180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easybuildapp.com/files/uploaded/files/82208301687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=quimioterapia+adyuvante+y+neoadyuvante+pdfPDF 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_off0000e8b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000100cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100CC 10784 bytes
SHA-256: da8e3767ae5d3350f463d29da459d2121d04c1f6f1f0db9b90b86667e51acad8
font_02_sfnt_off000119b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119B4 20096 bytes
SHA-256: 023c85c8b47b9084ae22f7254da7ee1e530f269d17c7956c3a71931c69b5edbd