Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58e869bfae30f0bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.4 KB Created: 2021-06-20 01:49:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: dc8f265ebbbc0ccd36011dc5eea91146 SHA-1: 92c7d32d15669120fe02464443599131f15d5bb1 SHA-256: 58e869bfae30f0bc348e1aa7ee177cfecfc45f1b0c52dd26c54f6115fc4a8dd0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body's obfuscated nature and the presence of external URIs further support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=life+2017+full+movie+online+watch PDF link annotation
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160759819952a6---sidulupaxevawimixinopizir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecompletecontact.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ponamoxovuxifexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legalinet.eu/userfiles/files/11536965384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f43b5cbd24525c3e5c893f1f4126d6db/550338201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be3bfac7544---wiwoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/34465888930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9fa36b7637---wugalosijumusexajijazesut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/xoxekuxowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/nowixawimazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0b3d8cd368---mixawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usssecuritate.ro/userfiles/file/29506250178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d790683e2702010589388e59015c31d/4706581221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ferm-matic.fr/upload/file/zebifijetosisar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/57932286115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dlp45hb8nmnhf4p8e2frlevb5/gupamozesazuluzunopejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd59843df0---71846224221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-pisanie-prac.pl/famprojekt_z_serwera/images/file/migofoxitibarorutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a9be581d3---27435542022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3a5a341141d0b0d8736f54484b62518/nuxasonak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d59817acb6e4d8d52259889b45a2677e/67897706579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ba85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA85 5228 bytes
SHA-256: e0db5ec006c3ead593b692630e8abc324336d8cf984df3cb4babf63b06505009
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC47 11388 bytes
SHA-256: 61226cb45ce6ce63a2a445e855a7405d84b0e87f6d41ddd9a02c769d782e0469
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C2 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378