Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5958cb59169bc990…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-07-29 20:33:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5051d6d9570632bce3020ac06b688c9b SHA-1: caaa5776c70e25400ef5c7594e56e8aed1ee5a82 SHA-256: 5958cb59169bc99054773b5c83e16bf8975f5e63fb0ab4248fde6d2bfd69afd5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3703e561d3---didezozonafugogusowet.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://iziusb.com/userfiles//file/tepugare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confetti-seasons.ru/upload/files/87973045060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a1-recruitment.fr/v2011/Files/fck_upload/file/56371657861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atdawnwelift.com/userfiles/file/77042017863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829ca7f126b---67460691756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/zemixogufujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/vikozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202106/file/sadozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinajessie.com/seadata/data/uploads/img/file/16224021848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iucecb.com/files/file/kijerodujuxewikijilav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7f56d1e1e8---buvovazelererologij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/natawaxepuwadapad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8b6397add4---43182922988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f30ef26d6a8---47507084174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/33436930436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://criminisiepartners.it/userfiles/files/25634207072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d02cdb6b69---xibez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb2b23ba7bc---58030117637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-13/20210713081034255208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/revibar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f3720117c774474599f91793083efc9/68823532893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weifong.tw/fckimages/file/legarujidilup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/69068018916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mp1nml3h4skcdirvf3bjodtatl/jevirovimuvadeniruzazomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+calculate+interest+on+ccPDF 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_off0001045e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1045E 17096 bytes
SHA-256: 54263aac808ce0402eccd0f44ccc5d59f8bf0c38e7486f024fbf9a8174265b1d
font_01_sfnt_off000130fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130FD 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 0ddb2783e33efb95f043f4972f7e8be02c2f328956e0d54bee8c41884bcc25f0
font_02_sfnt_off000148ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1