Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c58ffea50f480706…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-11 06:08:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b8fed528741d80a16fd2a0821b3a3a6f SHA-1: c248516372c22daaede813273c7309ba3b3ee3eb SHA-256: c58ffea50f480706685e1abac4d6a4f613ec2c20158a0fe80b66365c7c52f7f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613550bccebb1---71028111959.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161376a68239e6---4743275920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/13873026036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/458984c86226aa309af48d5f62b71375/63328674476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncfc.com.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kunibajemono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gojjang.com/uploads/files/kujolatezolinatojalezoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taechoclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_093B71CF2B12F910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/1702695511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cioccolatogallucci.it/userfiles/file/muvaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangvetthuong.com/luutru/files/jozovaram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manage3.realtourvision.com/rtv/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/41015455156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elesud.it/img_pagine/file/sipusewovewixelupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mmalappeenranta.com/tiedostot/files/26585916419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosedreamholidayhomes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40151413730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copyjokertw.aw6.tw/uploadfile/qu4_qu106_com/files/85669877719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbeo1acdy3adh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/xewoloziboduwujak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phunphu.com/userfiles/file/11064295912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inciboya.com/resimler/site/files/nefuwavopuketepikuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fb7d31e494---36610362667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dga.gr/ILC/img/file/20918312161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ppk-kp3k.kkp.go.id/ver2/extra/ckfinder/core/connector/php/media/ckfinder/files/dajaxagebinokemoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zenmobile.in/jaipriyart/uploads/files/nurewotupoxijufug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161358ad2d9b70---nibogolovaxotuzoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vectorma.ru/uploads/assets/file/58504327239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaskills.rs/files/13012872584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=isometric+paper+a4+pdfPDF 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_off0000e153.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE153 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f96a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF96A 10660 bytes
SHA-256: b90b5bab0823892aa645c399ab75994ab32746586209bd881f0674b81daf0e2e
font_02_sfnt_off000111e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111E8 18028 bytes
SHA-256: df4fe987c1f82511d22d1ea82579848811be161a10d90ee06728e322e2c4638b