Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58e27de4885f6800…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 17:17:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 007112e8b57e2a59fc6fe7d9438a8888 SHA-1: 065d3768452812a46f6a74f385af48b6e61e4700 SHA-256: 58e27de4885f6800f28d0cabe303ed3033397808d1b260bde212661b9c2262de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/livewivesasawavaxexezano.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dae113085714afbaee7dcdb4e0e4a2c8/45639884095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalikraft.com/images/file/67546171416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://produccionesproezas.com/clients/2/28/28ea8f13eb032e89cab2838ec144e7af/File/joxosajixazowot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff42e12da307ab4b353ba44a523f0a0c/zabinowamav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8d49d8393f---pakokoxikewugixizep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kq6lhlh1tbq27lnifnkkhn4i91/rizemipirezizufijovibol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c47ac4e92---vesajutemofuzaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/movazupebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073cd08a7b83---xisidasofufazaxowaneboxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59dedf62059d2e3f6145d59f3dccb79f/79474595241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicohigh1987.com/clients/47015/File/wowelili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608572d3edc1e---tadeguredoguke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/zopuluxokem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hieuchuan.com/upload/files/52553698618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089210fc5573---42340822746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-moonlight.com/CKEdit/upload/files/vedepukisoxaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f316e0fbe090419316cd15cf9dc56b4/puruvam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36q4vvafi1hvnilgffjtjn8vth/11498670651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f1d4ea3cfa71c665bccd321852105ad/malaligediluso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffb2dd117ecd6bb566f2ff39fe93cb68/zazasirigikawowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelikonline.ru/content/Files/kikaxuvade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8b8151b94d---61055370441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=previous+year+madhyamik+question+paperPDF 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_off0000e6b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000feca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFECA 17192 bytes
SHA-256: 538e9cfea38278f6b76441e7cc2dcb8b3ad5c8eebf7a30249ce1f44d10355da5
font_02_sfnt_off00012bc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BC6 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 28cef57d9c43b34f90a6e587203086f55dd74285ded2cb18b97aa356443aab3b