Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58e0f42d17da0aca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 00:04:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 6e7a61206ccb69701a11a0d56e3364db SHA-1: 3040b495be33d06502cd928bdfe4c840492c3d07 SHA-256: 58e0f42d17da0acaa89131ec7210b9b82aec3676a4497fce8fd4840977f3bfdc
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document impersonates a signing service, likely to trick the user into clicking embedded links. The numerous URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving the download of a second-stage payload via one of the embedded URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Document signing service impersonation lure medium SE_DOCUSIGN_LURE
    Document impersonates DocuSign, Adobe Sign, or a similar signing service in a signing-request context
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+pdf+fields+fillable PDF link annotation
    • http://koreanhotpot.com/uploads/files/91296891895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088535341487---78229792819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ueq34pf479jgv31bm3jpiu7ms4/doxulemimedajeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e644822e2e53515b1f75aa8dc5d6d26/83058636379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81f20244ade0ad13a5e24703d7efeb0b/61467305459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/59757752990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/987d31b0e95cdbfeffeea336eb08b406/68623169000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1e88869bea980a904dbfd9c2b216744/mumigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9cc8a123ce---vegavelelaxemudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c163ebf2e4de3dcd240430f8531eff5e/89840619500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b63eef7d50d---69749736022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargotavio.ru/files/file/kovogatinexotaferif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivier-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70279489579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49f05bb432ebba25ec13b2f05683fb23/ribesod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0f80ebdcba69d646d754bc8a489fc18/wevirewijovaxaluxuvog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithaca1962.com/clients/41687/File/risaramofakotisufufob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/fezujebubofosem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/gafujovababapasanelofedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inncredel.com/uploads/85273749359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franklinbristerharveyfamily.com/clients/a/a8/a8910385c57dfddac3c6311e2bd1422e/File/zarexirewiduruzuges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607936b572540---firewibireta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apinero.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d59003d54---muwexuromaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/96346800811.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_off0000e8d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000100e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E6 17856 bytes
SHA-256: 223b6d72707d55602f568cc3ba7eb8a7f7d5af22e5972d07f7c7164459237880
font_02_sfnt_off00012fef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FEF 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 581726e29684a0bf53f2f1d2804cb654e70d2e8fe34138aac5c72a488d6fa1d4