Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c58c8df707367a2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 23:19:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 988e85b247b3db18bd75212477a59d0e SHA-1: 6e22ea1fb7eac9dfff1a22d8dea7f432497fe9fa SHA-256: c58c8df707367a2b6d02a00f694485328a4e43285e82ecdaf0e4efbf43c37b91
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The file is a PDF containing a link farm, as indicated by multiple heuristics including PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised or disposable domains points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://strojsteel.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gafigesilarikite.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cp-tournament.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bekazugeduwopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fef717a4b6---jefizarizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/pakazofot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chayka-svg.ru/files/sixejak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pokusowaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hunting.kg/userfiles/file/tifalosezuwuruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjxbw.cn/userfiles/file/voremepedoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://narellesastro.com/userfiles/files/nilasawererofanagiveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speakingparrot.com/upload/ckfinder/files/35663239332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyediajandekotletek.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/98557740024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentalrud.com/userfiles/file/juwegoselisevetiwanofar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hmgfinance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lopisetetuged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed31659cde5861133c482b3d8a114dd3/58084871920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46qpgcllb2b9856svthc6pviab/sopuxuridofiwanerat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youil.org/userData/board/file/fizewinememo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbhshipyard.com/userfiles/file/dutatemoxumod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunriverps.com/data/editor/file/50417253917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modero.vn/upload/files/94022192480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theofficeplus.com/userfiles/file/84948638846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e4a7e935e1---4281791867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermogroup.ru/uploads/files/vogasatemisegetolutisibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motty-etai-sharon.com/files/files/57041906424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeria-millemiglia.de/app/webroot/img/editor/file/laruxekujepewepixewap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=deleted+contacts+still+showing+up+androidPDF 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_off0000d8ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0FC 17352 bytes
SHA-256: 76fdb64b4743bd6d90878c7b3901ae3c301f6bee6cc57dced25d78e7c49fb5d8
font_02_sfnt_off00011e72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E72 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 2d1af20f1c2f32295fd00fc903088617e0b64654543144c28e6be0bfda7f2f67