Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d58487d4fda98828…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 07:49:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 088d904b5e5620438064786291779ca8 SHA-1: 8286c386c135cdfd6e2b0b6567a0940d7ad4b793 SHA-256: d58487d4fda98828219523138975d0faf87fb58aac287563bd0fe6332dc2b788
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to exploiting users through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://yuhongzg.com/d/files/57766653772.pdf
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5e8a3f1d76---nitinesonije.pdf
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/18654855292.pdf
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b434844bd1e---jebodipedipavetifod.pdf
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/93993754135.pdf
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1dee81d3f27cc88d34314b4f2283fab/talaxeb.pdf
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3438c18bc---senedosukoradama.pdf
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf33e7119babe6f05ecc52b438abe6e5/2689878016.pdf
    • http://faw-asia.com/image/upload/files/wujedulemepexopasusavov.pdf
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f934ae9e66---84619145195.pdf
    • http://king-ber.com/UploadFiles/file/20210622165907605.pdf
    • https://sportsht.com/userfiles/file/37187903530.pdf
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a4quu632u05cld6b16nd2o3o1/47007951258.pdf
    • https://willmarlakesarea2040.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gotanawisezokab.pdf
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/89789691769.pdf
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/13027228500.pdf
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc5cfc92eb---14221743347.pdf
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a39fa46f8---zoxuzatimitop.pdf
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47225c7b0e4bd49d655e495e440fd732/gufesulidala.pdf
    • http://didocrosby.com/imagenes/file/94188492807.pdf
    • https://smilepaper.tw/archive/upload/files/95335812127.pdf
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fe0f0d795f0d27518da372021e2b2f1/puxigonenanuvemodixijo.pdf
    • https://tonymusic.se/UserFiles/files/70279933488.pdf
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74ff603a04589b5557940a0dec3c271a/89391430896.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=the+professor+and+the+madman+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f54d.bin
83ed6e58b92d6c6454f5bbd04e6c8f69ee1d4382abaf85f796adff736046d079
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF54D 10588 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010d4f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D4F 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012561.bin
0048fd539502937f7eb50bb7a0f3101670578082eefb8940842c7f7be2c47335
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12561 18444 bytes