Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58fdea0074844f11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 18:43:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 439e6c0220eb270496ef65c4dd17b607 SHA-1: 82c857813e4c939d29ee58203f25e7c069a15419 SHA-256: 58fdea0074844f11e12434fb39c56d98c78e90de8b67b6b9c66ee7b95568678c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially track user engagement with the lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e4b952b10---70188805819.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://monamifrance.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210615_273A0EE25B1E846A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3546e644d---vexovevizukekokipite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098305116685---wowagivex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095c0d5015b3---movutugofila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielwod.com/userfiles/file/64412863256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denizlihorozu.com/resimler/files/xawusuwitirivevumoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/resimagigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607437ca946a9---31944038402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/diwuvolenisagijuwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walkofagesvt.org/clients/0/0e/0e42319052772b195a43ba3ede0f03e0/File/66021933158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb7e326764---jojujilolone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busanpc1.com/upload/fckeditor/file/nonidinaxefazaperu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2ek20iq5e3bkqnkbvkog1ulsg/karatulejameseni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609054b8662d0---23955578040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciccioinpentola.com/userfiles/files/84676814179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a327703d6fb7c996af005ca7f3eb2eb1/42231636914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de260be2cbd1e5b0568b599e3be9f834/62326116500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a9ce620e1---paxuxuxofofiliwusebuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bce035c7441---tufovujikusilez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/93474212954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1c01515c22---34120739403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908b109abfc---sibig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a7ba212778---vufidosukamepozeguxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+cortisonePDF 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_off0000f56e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF56E 10344 bytes
SHA-256: a1eb5423a12a689482e8f743b8bfe4d7735a38c5158dcc5f57f96d8401af3ffc
font_01_sfnt_off00010cf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CF4 17196 bytes
SHA-256: 04d27f61a6a5ebc928b6932306be0f47143621b176b0d1f5cda20bb728aa7c0d
font_02_sfnt_off000139d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1