Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58e6ce435f0fc947…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:55:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 26201b635c02a612aefc08923e7e186d SHA-1: d0f2e9a9a6a44ec68977d11dab5c51470877a180 SHA-256: 58e6ce435f0fc94743c8fc06cb1c3ad434eb5f2ccc3b93aa32491546eb2ee94e
104 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to download and execute additional malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. Several heuristics indicate the PDF is part of a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the ultimate malicious destination. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://alphanaturehk.com/userfiles/file/87526261048.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gadd-asso.org/userfiles/file/vanomugusuvinepubowuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masterref.ru/editorfiles/file/71387301271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/av06rv0iva2t2jprt67e30b0f4/58357116225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxiluzern.ch/khurasan/userfiles/files/kexemofuzedumapezemetag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/duir0er26e01leabsqhcgspf04/18951101308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/favitujizomeruro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076574ac83ee---xugij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0t88u5mcr7o1jou7ot9io3v6qg/wedimavexebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098858596d38---juzeraxowotelugedalozepaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc9d4e30ace44fc39ffb562a9e18a45f/rofevuzaful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/81925752120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camping-du-lac-dijon.com/fichiers/limepivomekazakekira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/shh3fsg8eqqgfnvlb1m7r9t72e/lewabukul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hbfilm.ca/resimler/files/79077387250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwsedan.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/67850752765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieiras.pt/imagensprodutos/file/zedosulisive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75673c6e80---bizife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a609a1e0da4---94980477769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pazzo.jp/js/upload/files/xalazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vtcosdp822mab6gq5mvdjf0ij5/44251141925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/lefowirujutivazufugod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s28dtgf6hnoq147bvnrke92ji7/daxetixenejani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eotp.info/sites/default/files/fck/file/4778659220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/javunosopaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=doctrine+of+consideration+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_off00013a36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A36 10568 bytes
SHA-256: edd577a8492f64c2c0f696d499c9ffb9713681f87828525d28915bcd2395b0fe
font_01_sfnt_off0001526d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1526D 18992 bytes
SHA-256: 056dd63d3e9f45b5d76456a98ecbf0aa4cadb53cc8b383a6ba30172d899f9a1a
font_02_sfnt_off0001841d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1841D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1