Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58cdc2c629896653…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 19:09:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9f8d605ac01f0c66bb7ed7da96bdf626 SHA-1: c576651e58403ad36b6ac800e505d4f967a1620f SHA-256: 58cdc2c629896653aa396cd6a01cac43c92701fb80c3675d2db2c56b80b34f68
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be disposable. The primary purpose seems to be redirecting users to potentially harmful content or for SEO manipulation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://csc021.com/userfiles/file/20210901130706_c0fiws.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370f6df09f1---5902807104.pdf
    • http://worldprint.su/userfiles/file/jerewizifuwejamixazev.pdf
    • http://leadingedgecorporate.com/user_images/file/34296114760.pdf
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161327e06a1acd---1944028806.pdf
    • http://orderkai.com/uploads/files/tuvuma.pdf
    • https://dongciao.com/uploads/files/202109080801518622.pdf
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2826c0c10fe4fadb95114c52b18057a0/29088273983.pdf
    • http://elsped.hu/files/file/4370031693.pdf
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3c76344ee538c422ff421388a1a793d/boxenesizozamopogiveku.pdf
    • http://saveondealz.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/77452359765.pdf
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2c644b86b8196e401f1b6e801767cc1/57308983605.pdf
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/42692995839.pdf
    • https://tramtron.vn/uploads/files/files/19541141076.pdf
    • http://dreesmann-foto.de/userfiles/file/tomusox.pdf
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/naxasibefuniluke.pdf
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161358f991a16f---77935195065.pdf
    • http://school15-tyumen.ru/f/94725241465.pdf
    • http://smalternatywa.pl/media/upload/files/ffbb2c5ec3aa07be3613717b1a2185a3.pdf
    • http://lignumweb.com/site/webroot/uploads/files/7400055536.pdf
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161360b1b73ec7---tusevolowagaposibi.pdf
    • http://studiopedrazzini.eu/userfiles/files/ferimaroxivavemativas.pdf
    • https://southwestlooms.com/admin/userfiles/files/ruvebise.pdf
    • https://ecoquimica.cl/dinamicos/uploads/file/bebifori.pdf
    • http://werkschoenenverkoop.nl/images/docman/files/85394855053.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=math+worksheets+grade+1+ordering+numbers
    • 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_off0000d99b.bin
b34ae4e0f857ca974bb00ce6db8031a90b1c6b31fdab05d410d4510393594911
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD99B 17476 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001071e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1071E 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011f35.bin
7c1eb666db980a967c65f49b2f032d1a52b270b1bd2b5f971881fee5b78ce54b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F35 11112 bytes