Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58eacf27b375f634…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 05:06:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6b05b5be85511d482899c5090ee0c7e3 SHA-1: 712e64941d655956ddf5efb47d94f1b1a35de5d7 SHA-256: 58eacf27b375f63434323abdc1285121506c46c13d6b0aee0084596137d5697f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and compromised CMS upload links further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://gvs-russia.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91463524348.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://batiment-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/41950593049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131c543efa89---xukuzinut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozt.zielonetarasy-cieplice.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/37438925926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/67723427551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwsedan.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/41964088744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132ae187e4c5---11376708490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungdvm.net/upload/ckfinder/files/54929441849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161344f9e9d257---69746124894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npk-bypassdrr2.com/file_media/file_image/file/xifuxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/82536722891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gujaratisamajparis.org/upload/files/bigixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130113e3d603---nelibixalewiwerax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesecurityguardunion.ca/userfiles/files/ladufojitamowivotugoseje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovovyroba-nosniky.cz/UserFiles/File/70035066890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afeb7cc2837de0f3ff8924496eca3a83/rokalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613229dc3ecdb---67231902412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yokosohk.com/files/fckfiles/file/sononalowepibasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panificioilcavaliere.it/userfiles/files/88285525245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peoplesmodelinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72160815665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekejozsef.eu/FCKfeltoltott/file/48174724910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132402772a2d---sediposu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ff547ecb3c---pufagodetusatat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscconsulting.com/userfiles/file/bovegoralibodemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ppsspp+game+download+filePDF 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_off0000d13b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD13B 17740 bytes
SHA-256: 9e0d2762f14de8980a972f8c929d8f83e3b6c65ffb14c827925e236f13d03f20
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDD8 10732 bytes
SHA-256: bf26b27d68636a3ebe3a64129b6c0f4d3fdd52a78266764619d0bd6a11c8dfdb
font_02_sfnt_off00011651.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11651 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1