Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58f69ee267e98c47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-08-04 12:55:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4cf792fd64aff6723ca6270370b678c8 SHA-1: 1bb633d0bde8e16d7d1413bea028550ca72a0270 SHA-256: 58f69ee267e98c47a723d620ba5eed1947dfe7a41864bb90d292c4d055c41024
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content but the structure and heuristics point to a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://okud-istra.hr/userfiles/file/21755022791.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://coiffurenais.com/userfiles/file/46389565428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eakqshop.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/bivexirilegupopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scheidenschiedam.nl/uploads//file/sowurowibaxumodaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pavimentosyreformasferlu.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sujubilituvudakuvedew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13831234358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd2744d83917293231b81206672b95cd/57294264661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/foroju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aarhuskortet.dk/images/file/nixukewat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a99b1f862931c92831b5b7c5d8b35cfb/31071748019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hdkpcktdk798b69bt3co67t8h3/62440336684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzhqhi.com/d/files/29872137675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magatek.com/documents/file/73141313603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2b56ac898b2e9dede6781e596f5f312/30221377225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4c92c1eb3---29965485225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.biz/userfiles/files/59263709645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/10164123583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiahpa.com/flash/files/92585914151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a2da15dbf2---vuworiroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/kavujud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e2ccce766e9f0edfa93749047e2b597/xujudof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072cc971dddf---90702264169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sladkiy-ostrov.ru/userfiles/files/pemoleremevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=the+girl+who+can+by+ama+ata+aidoo+analysisPDF 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_off0000edd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDD4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105EB 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 196543181adbc8e4e61a069af1ef08dad30365322cb3351c6771e644418a4918
font_02_sfnt_off00011f8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F8C 17384 bytes
SHA-256: b666003d82277593f0dc1bc6c16146a224836a0e832721699b654cf7c70142de