Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d58c29293b26bd28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-06-27 04:33:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3f8631f6f12e6cac7c97815cefc4951e SHA-1: 5280ba2e111c5b56b969ad651d0ccad4a580fbeb SHA-256: d58c29293b26bd28146082be7bd0ce6ad58f2383b07209ef59d356cf6fd172fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links indicates a primary function of directing users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=explain+the+process+of+gastrulation
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1c43e0997---nowibenola.pdf
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b957c1ad6ef---49091508545.pdf
    • https://repare-ton-smartphone.com/userfiles/file/liroduwomik.pdf
    • http://smartvoicecom.com/userfiles/93172639864.pdf
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10ebf6fde1ca4704e215896675c3a681/wolowixegire.pdf
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbbc0b499d92e316692be5d313e3f6bb/vesifu.pdf
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/pugox.pdf
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ecd079e9b---19828657766.pdf
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dl992ei1kvj25gidijq0nt05gn/67943117486.pdf
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/48810970631.pdf
    • https://terminal.hr/userfiles/file/putusojo.pdf
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210507014446634.pdf
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b01193875484a321fc1043a276569018/91958368716.pdf
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/450cd98b9a666b564f759eedaaa48173/41455628123.pdf
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8149d43232a8b93ef8228153038a6780/45324911156.pdf
    • https://chambredhotes-savoie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/texivufirebetikuwizopapop.pdf
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/82445656337.pdf
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2b129ae022b7f4799f99f5ebecc2e7e/13482196659.pdf
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/migakobataw.pdf
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44bcf49abf4a96c899c2f1e2b48c0f1c/94101772227.pdf
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1ed00a40e---vitiwimede.pdf
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aejmt0p5vfnbjhr4lo6ovdnod1/97175586052.pdf
    • http://www.conectadoscomdeus.tv/arquivos/file/9683746614.pdf
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9lu0fimt7iv8amdnjd29jvq7ei/dusuzebapole.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_off0000e853.bin
7cbd10e64225597538733a2ea2f8507d661c09f75ea75958154c659754ad59ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE853 17636 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001154e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1154E 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012d65.bin
15979c6d3cbc70ee8c842b37937f0fbe7130d0d26e57cffae90051f977f8786d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D65 10944 bytes