Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58cc5360a5ab19a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 14:15:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9546d3f3876f3e3636b3ef9abd724e7d SHA-1: b243ab5898732ca46068f054e4ee01b2085c5ca7 SHA-256: 58cc5360a5ab19a1c689d07904873bc100d3f3ca9c3b698de695e1fc00c4df5f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a ML classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are structured as link farms on disposable hosting. The primary function appears to be directing users to external, potentially malicious sites.

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://ergo-logo-bamberg.de/userfiles/file/23681434655.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/43794429642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbac866606a0c845b15bfd8cb13cd0cf/39615524542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fan-consultants.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pezosufoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecmunn252pat037p4ba7f3m5fd/24519420891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16aa51cf84bd13ccaba58e298e5fb7bb/fupategosizubamowokovelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb3fde6010---42308841102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872eacba5e5---pukumoror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://likeevent.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/rosisinirobuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consoles-a-gagner.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/tawidusivujisijitupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ec0a737894cc5650ffc762d6668b96d/zexosunukinejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/79964552275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6192b54865e713d6e24bcfb80dd5531/74208809913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/696e62940060a3d53091aa1c65374c90/34043560691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4b5eaead3b9d6e2ad64bb1abd4904ce/kunaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805c1ae17f8---28386367701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db25db96aed6acb2dffea43054e14a6f/rewesafofepozesis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorinaldibedin.eu/userfiles/files/gukuwexavonojadiwenubes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/jilajizan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9a254f08679ff7f02faee10f3449df4/20234976366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bor-diing.com/upload/files/72899156493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/34930280307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kielcenoca.pl/files/file/kebupuvisuravimoxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/vobezewojomupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fcd6d32a623---jegulewekokogew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/16869734330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=right+angled+triangle+formula+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_off0000e32a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE32A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB3C 17564 bytes
SHA-256: 82100bbc0cf7f7b9a788c1db04173d5293b14a3515f14b82b0c3274dfeff08af
font_02_sfnt_off0001295f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1295F 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 76ac3192b9d10723de1135dda780c47522b2f536bd571a479cb364694788b675