Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d658a9e85cfa2adf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 15:11:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4235ed16c900f6a22de421d39b073b5a SHA-1: 3f590856874b258ecbcc7d36ce515eaba9d52304 SHA-256: d658a9e85cfa2adfe957ce1b90eba6a4147c5c682c41a14edfdc5544bda239cd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards the document being used to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=linux+book+download
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36937f384435f26a0a4a135404bb7b34/50682022526.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/dupazar.pdf
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2k49tfvodha7gl95cigkh7aucv/fenadufutiwanukumukuj.pdf
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-22/20210622204405676053.pdf
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/degafixuvikafor.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd634367601---45084125773.pdf
    • https://prokoncept.hu/admin/blogfck/image/file/wixateg.pdf
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c2c77a89fb---84079663357.pdf
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e35a99b1c669fff71c016a57fd1a95c/72355622530.pdf
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e347e80043aabaa0e01ef8bbec393e3/kezaxeboguxi.pdf
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/xigiratimenadoxonu.pdf
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c03a989e2b4---xurexutapufegusob.pdf
    • http://candientuvibra.com/images/file/zurigatovit.pdf
    • http://grawerlik.pl/userfiles/file/tezogiwife.pdf
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ldhgae8dsge6u70qngvlogdpj/64793320484.pdf
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf6fe2cde4494d4031e822e55fdc2b41/vuxexa.pdf
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/264e70f07efd5e829d67dd4befd348e3/65756382849.pdf
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d07a147ef1bacf86a47cce0ac0f47576/96983799833.pdf
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa316240f7---99770851981.pdf
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/dekik.pdf
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/jedetetulosiw.pdf
    • http://koopmankennedyfeller.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/28442747417.pdf
    • https://migger.dk/userimages/file/zurexazaduwedigesosimo.pdf
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aecc578fe94---9193851980.pdf
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95d6fd20d1f7fda200c48dae63deb6ae/272745609.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_off0000eaf0.bin
18f26de9041653b364f770306fe8d249c09b21d94ba91b4d7f483f82e7492dcc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAF0 17480 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000118f9.bin
45722e30ddadfa15b9ffa393ce0be55002eef641eaec66d33d13def87f2a83ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118F9 10220 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013000.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13000 16792 bytes