Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f58138d1ca4e0e0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.6 KB Created: 2021-07-04 04:09:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 400c48baa992342fcd555664b2965e52 SHA-1: 805b2ed79968623f74df86a2e14da8e13a59ce35 SHA-256: f58138d1ca4e0e0b0f853f0b94a212eb6c1438b01d85885f063ebf179eefb44a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=degree+to+become+a+pilot PDF link annotation
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lrl17m6r9q10565f3uot8frdtg/xitugelevifamosetako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247christianity.org/fckeditor/userfiles/file/88571312431624266098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c11b1191c43---vedofudunoxotorawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa0f6330547---64616865101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb03abea810---66498574554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m9c53evgefcks9p6kvupnlo37q/37787347947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/790d8998f2a2dd57e182aaac4c6964ae/tugotikejofoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/288g0obpl33847j7dmvkpqfbkl/66975733921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landpas.pl/upload/file/49598084948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lumieretvie.com/userfiles/file/devavarusapasiluti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b4af3ba044---donesojedebelofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uf0jp7mh3fermk1oeim6cb5s84/19008961726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606db55d5df27---88984477678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ced9f06c7f---29720652341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e126d9c1532ada1b2fca6c77aa720ed2/kuzidedixavunujikeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/9485442340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/wemumesovuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haai.org/upload/file/2295599052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrybusiness-crm.com/ressource/devis-photo/files/48193201446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c34a86aae9---32275042569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ece6c1a3a---nexosovulubemoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c369c5168b2---9561568883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/73642453096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/78581158797.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_off00013710.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13710 17528 bytes
SHA-256: 365e1954dbc0d8af7ac3cbd3c032088d5bf638f588e1fe086d7f71233fcd3c0c
font_01_sfnt_off00016500.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16500 10584 bytes
SHA-256: a903378bb1cce58bf99e63485d452343f372e852738e536b73e6ae1838ff72be
font_02_sfnt_off00017cf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17CF6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1