Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b58ff3d929bdb65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 18:50:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 86303c3284e50808269cf987fe967d8d SHA-1: 249797b28dfcaed0900ac6ad31cc1fe2c2ff81e0 SHA-256: 9b58ff3d929bdb65626a3c79bd2c39954161d0b3d1bf42fb6a48d9e95534fd3d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs, particularly the one hosted on 'livestreaming.group', are suspicious and likely lead to further malicious stages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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://intrigantka.ru/images/userfiles/file/19724407133.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hnt15ltesgbeqltljrj8livq02/xawuxufoturabiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee27f1b60e---bijevavagibufezafujun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d147129e84e8255ee1f315a61c7b952/79048430073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0lu4cfciq38uj0289qq7qmm905g6l7dl/kuxudopafafisututut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burstallconrad.com/editor_files/file/30365741220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e690ed172ebfaacd28d3fce04c762df/47184167271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/39201458259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160992ab533701---gazasifozikaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadanur.com/resimler/files/18413240070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607291cdebcad---93922359246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iact6p007vljhf3omg64t8n5m0/xonarozotusikitaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tl-systems.hu/files/files/zejipexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e35073e5c249bae2556592a1fd4028ce/7379419059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediedil.eu/userfiles/files/77176718527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d9be3b965---72578422635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dai53jffhbtoe1hhs5tejup4b7/gejegazisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacinsara.ro/fckfiles/file/jabatututizove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/lekevumoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6a8efb2530---visunoxojireforepenul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmont.eu/userfiles/file/sexezodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a738df5e156---22978239717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=hand+holding+flower+drawingPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d1df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F6 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 2b9fdd0769834de2d4ecd7614570059599da290060c79498bfe04f4ba37db857
font_02_sfnt_off0001014d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1014D 17268 bytes
SHA-256: ce1ace9ea6050c956835063431b6d67e0da131cba7e4dcd7592770be0f45b7a2
font_03_sfnt_off00012e20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E20 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 7d15b2d6d265aaca51dda18faee70a1b8fa9d95ed54cb111fb0895789092f9ae