Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58e8ea5baf81a0c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 14:01:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 03dc2355772b9b73ed2751d1e9662a39 SHA-1: 9514fd2eed2f4c4466e20ae9ab2c237888309809 SHA-256: 58e8ea5baf81a0c30507c81338723a9ba269711bc2dea99c67cdea855319e53a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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=two+intersecting+lines+lie+in+one+plane+if+then+form
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ba11c7413---nuruvuxesuxabid.pdf
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad9f392fc794bc7cb19b73be51563c31/26382994559.pdf
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fb6bc1687e98eef95d1d20b5874615b/74574869810.pdf
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/22850820839.pdf
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a2d1fb4f14---puvegab.pdf
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efb1c0d420f86851ba29a9b7fb588763/2512902286.pdf
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e29e02350a790eb85102786f30a04aa/sudag.pdf
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/nadiv.pdf
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76e8behd3v7l1srfi4aa7ogg2g/80282548399.pdf
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/72183629610.pdf
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2c5a084923---xibibatefogejadibizit.pdf
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb80ba9b5e9---regafimobomejatevifokofex.pdf
    • http://suarezbeltran.com/aym_images/files/8199949270.pdf
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r549104rdrh0s4bvlhptavha7f/17886960259.pdf
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e69020f2e4a1fe3abfd633755034e80b/82025087883.pdf
    • http://czechdidgeridoo.com/admin/upload/file/33147688382.pdf
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5b1f42e649a772dba7ec59d604f300a/zubawexebijotan.pdf
    • http://baikalspring.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/minuluditosor.pdf
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c92fb14d83---toxulovebifujabes.pdf
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1dfb200a9---pipojosovowuteluxekav.pdf
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pjq64glsdk6e0i46g3336pnj49/98055977345.pdf
    • http://www.ximangsongthao.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/bofutagobokozez.pdf
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/775c174227a59fd1460be3fe4756262c/9437778709.pdf
    • 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_off0000cbe2.bin
300bb948cb2a4fa9fc11b7ea03707667b72b0ead68642182a63372a39574bc0d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBE2 10976 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e54a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE54A 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd5c.bin
31d0170af35622de6e699fa703dfc347195ebbdc35ff8c715e807744408ba02e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD5C 17628 bytes