Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58fea416e6a9fa1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:36:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d138767f4131fcd73a6376f5e7a21078 SHA-1: 38ca9df1351aac128e15d541b2576ff2b3ca716c SHA-256: 58fea416e6a9fa1c49dcec5115a8a166301ad25984014480822d9d347da36653
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dances+from+other+countries PDF link annotation
    • https://artlabjo.com/userfiles/file/92367028613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residenzaeden-albisola.com/userfiles/files/25269025431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/bumelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimstudioinc.com/media/files/toginopubojoxatodarizog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf4443b76f---16254600364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulanceservice.pl/userfiles/file/91358517334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/18342630151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/temodepegadepugibimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ecd00301ba---bopomuwokesefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/maethgfvk1t5b7a4c1fu9780ej/64358407934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netmutum.com/userfiles/file/dinipovoganolejiletogow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamitobe.ru/files/file/xixusepukereso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b55hepmlquavpoh6hj04t515h3/23267363191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reopen911.info/media/file/zezokagoxotiwazuzavigux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilturismoinitalia.it/userfiles/files/91433040242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joy05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/borofepigamewatiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb24f8c175---kegalefexajoxiwofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadd-asso.org/userfiles/file/muvevumalugasexojusominut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eakqshop.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/33434129666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resumesfromabove.com/userfiles/file/66953782054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/et6d8164urjb1d4lr3tvd5d3v0/98788593014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e16ef754b6---57826596069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c7ac16ace---96987277818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://life-worldwide.org/assets/uploads/files/780630021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cebeeae66d---gozelumasaguzutu.pdfIn 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://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_off0000d8d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8D3 17448 bytes
SHA-256: 6ead744418aeb98bfa611cb58119b0d9ec2727762e213816144e956a6238b2e3
font_01_sfnt_off000105c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011dd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DD9 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 142b86077a20e117d067aa9ee456f973819572abbf0ba8882db2c83c29a5e5b9