Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58fec2cacd57ab39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 18:00:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2bb80356677845ed8cd2872eb601b1a0 SHA-1: 71a01952d66ca35023cc3a1d73eaf11b10e9a434 SHA-256: 58fec2cacd57ab3927017f9c66de5d56cdd18f8d78f503413b47337b6ef121b7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, likely leading to further malware download or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://csc-020.com/userfiles/file/20210902151813_cyxk0x.pdf
    • https://sanagustin.cl/files/ralazulezajupeki.pdf
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8024aadf58765d1410397717426db8d/sodaderekipusuziragif.pdf
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/67091712563.pdf
    • http://saraiaser.nl/userfiles/file/kalokobuseb.pdf
    • http://satyavnetworks.com/fck_upload_images/file/tojokimenofaje.pdf
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/filojizono.pdf
    • https://masihpt1.com/contents/files/41850169367.pdf
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/69875891039.pdf
    • http://leeharringtonhomes.com/userfiles/file/80764131468.pdf
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161327787668d0---52517215009.pdf
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79486cf789a092292e0872452709c9da/11902698360.pdf
    • https://unitytradecapital.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bitevulematolaneruwajuj.pdf
    • https://biomisszio.hu/tmp/29750379471.pdf
    • http://soluzionebenessere.eu/userfiles/files/9633580255.pdf
    • http://csc0898.com/userfiles/file/20210907040852_dbid29.pdf
    • https://zegaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/babonegalogupar.pdf
    • https://holcom-wd.com/webroot/img/files/56749878229.pdf
    • https://colakcivi.com/userfiles/file/fepixupodakifunamiveli.pdf
    • http://thehedgerowchronicles.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zejojasigutujejozekofe.pdf
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613854dc68661---botiturozesajewifud.pdf
    • http://metrocars.london/survey/userfiles/files/patajovima.pdf
    • http://gamax-moto.cz/data/dokumenty/solunamaw.pdf
    • http://oasishs.com/uploads/files/20210907_034523.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=danby+designer+portable+dishwasher+manual
    • 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_off0000e051.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE051 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f863.bin
80fa0ab3842a818719fcb3038c9ff87c15665d947a8041dd2095b3621e8d4f8a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF863 18604 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012952.bin
237eede9185203c3f71c436e61d82f50ba1c0713d939954f94a1d6d98170beda
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12952 11280 bytes