Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c58ed93322086659…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:49:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: cc73209e534e437d83218bf690841fe2 SHA-1: dbf8b43e8d41bc516bcf98e20d1cce58586ceb08 SHA-256: c58ed93322086659330855d77f4230ea43b9b792e9c7b0ee8b43c26a180f0513
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan-like behavior. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The file's structure and the nature of the URLs suggest it is part of a phishing campaign, potentially delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9914

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=blues+club+clarksdale+mississippi PDF link annotation
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/35811007255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degeninhotel.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75553422461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a43890a5c5---22244685237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ad9e856a544240e8c718652d80cf8c3/16860463739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asavn.vn/uploads/userfiles/files/mobuwaxudag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b4238dcc3---92699367029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7t7bd54gflbvohbltclv61rak1/12852690748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51cd496da22105e6521665771d6394d7/bolipagazugigovevik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/7446717541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c98a11b5ad4---11071912053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/bildbank/file/65063428655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820afd716db---mibuxivufurakakerujisupuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viessmannboilers.ca/fck_upload/file/79170302148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e36d87dcced99775fc9af1d158c946ad/managizawid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp72.com/clients/7/7b/7b902bee17765b19ebdde6030f24742d/File/peroxifakake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16125f5c5a43ac---71472684728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106d0eb4fe47---kifopedorekewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95a5e2caaf---bijifurinas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaf759b8290186c94179844fbc9e16e5/gojelowivadodivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7628b8d433526c9e4c8a5ff1f07f4d0a/50283791170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clickvay.com/upload/files/vagogulozevavimipod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://craftsmancuttingdies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/053a133cd2d859b2a5636df988da9d18/35688611166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corianderedmonton.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40463705711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waypl.pl/upload/File/97244177055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a7db93711919617574db42b389137e5/69602601306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000bd0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD0F 16652 bytes
SHA-256: 030459cd477030d1c01a851ee09bb5fb327856684ddd6fbc69104cf8c86f7854
font_01_sfnt_off0000e84e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE84E 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 4d3195bc6fbde133ceecab2f64f97421de3e0e70e4269a5a37ad851be68581ac
font_02_sfnt_off000100d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1