Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58c9ca9c0893ab4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 05:15:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: f96654a60443e0f11bebbf7ab4c3e240 SHA-1: 830523f31f4b7d79fce7602486bfe4d22ab86d00 SHA-256: 58c9ca9c0893ab4c7521a30f10807a64481a8d181498476001b32c435cb72f28
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The file's structure as a link farm, with many URLs, supports the classification as a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=screenplay+cover+page+format PDF link annotation
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/823dc4650dfa7ce7edf4aa301706a8de/93543414440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0b590784dede03e145ef8db80735482/62519793951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosaison.fr/userfiles/files/48308952513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krzeptowski.pl/file/kuviwadikunovolefibaxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faresaldabbous.com/uploads/files/fokagovumelifinipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69c3ee5d7858f1dfb65158db5447953c/wemugefuwodulanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f61325eb0934571ea92a6242b125662/26638355538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havanic.com/cache/fck_files/file/71659575773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/8016644261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d35d303748b---19412412407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oecs2llko9bdublefdjnpd6olk/6055406595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/33294842561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zebcom.in/userfiles/file/lurexodanavoximexeluja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/25442112633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hashtag.school/userfiles/file/11886489080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/kozifegimefuwavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/gojaberarowukisubiguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbjg7ctfs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6396f91a255f184b13120ae7e94ba5c8/govif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdebe1b4adbfa8f76a051290e99b364d/famiwemasitoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cdace0e2c7---fatefaxojisuxupemepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b94dcea39ac---51911524642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b759aedb4d5---79674683724.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_off0000e62d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE62D 10816 bytes
SHA-256: b6da42e508229a843d073d2de3c0d53ceab266d6dac6b95ffc794909ab4b0bc7
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF35 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011747.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11747 16952 bytes
SHA-256: 8d93ff0492c68733b5d849ff4064323a5d44f5caa6414eadceb3c241b9eb4155