Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c58a94a61f9124c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-14 11:18:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 588d8ab40feb4c86610016a35aa7c395 SHA-1: b5ab4f73af057c83125f248951d49c93ba8b9452 SHA-256: c58a94a61f9124c3b8fc8f7e2e37248b0e131ed76a1dd707d8ecb5da3cc8b0f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous external URIs and the heuristic identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac65f6d70994436f43941a3ca2880e3d/xiluwexixipaxugufefan.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613db42292b1f---97445116052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innospectrum.eu/hirlevel/file/10010258513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themetamorphoseprogram.com/userfiles/file/xegude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonwealthsportsawards.com/userfiles/file/zamalit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mya1fc.com/files/ckuploads/files/93968322237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viajaconsciente.com/imagenes/userfiles/file/wewelezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a68ff06e95---petadofegegizabegipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-koparki.pl/Upload/file/moguvanodad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/lekemelaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613123cb4888c---wadoxixowikode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delfosventures.net/userfiles/files/86457248291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcrainhwy.com/uploads/files/vujox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkm-lux.by/var/upload/file/natuxidigamevunetiwaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/xesatizugavegek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c16f25109---39226528685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://old.smartplus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gawofusipuworavuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lighthouse-connection.at/myPix/file/gemebotisubodetokitolalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaurrieta.net/USERFILES_JAURRIETA/files/gelivipavow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aesyq.xn--p1acf/files/file/10633080961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soenen-pneus.com/upload/file/nizosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emons-verlag.net/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/nelifowavofonop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movimientofamiliadejesus.com/images/uploaded/file/85652313348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.de/eros/userfiles/file/80761937611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodavidepini.it/userfiles/files/kazepeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesurmakina.com/userfiles/file/65439766794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=paid+android+apps+for+free+todayPDF 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_off0000e947.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE947 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010159.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10159 17672 bytes
SHA-256: b93a1c7d950af70f6ac63d6be53d5bf5cc356d1361a2e6772b049ff9b843d745
font_02_sfnt_off00012f5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F5A 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 5e6bf47fcfd55ab1e5269ea0aa978ecab3acbd5f2720661d3243e6e424472433