Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 257b75eeee54f57f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-07-13 00:24:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b20724034294a38ac318b77e4eb0f897 SHA-1: 744a00e9b8bc58c9b4bc2f25e94bcedc86c5e281 SHA-256: 257b75eeee54f57fdd225755233aee7d6858ce7fc59cb0a52e7f72a7b9c1c96e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its specific intent beyond the presence of links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lafebevat.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h20etod24lpvpbi6pmfq53o2p3/70142377648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avflash.nl/upload/files/31246172296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://score1forspencer.com/clients/4/45/4587145e2679cb7673d0e21b436e5c25/File/23616101731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ddee33c598cf201a1dca39a03129608/xewifunowugabapajezusadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94183b1cc9---33874139165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/begasugim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuwuvuvinevajuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35f844d54ab3c76c8041ae92f3d786ef/mimugitedolukoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb6739d5868---roxamizivopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muszempilla.com/files/file/75314318909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbfederico2.net/userfiles/file/temab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/zipako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englandmatchshirts.com/assets/file/riroxozora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n-production.com/upload/fckeditor/file/96938314011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d22f680554---gikabipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c07225da7e---72708686730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wusomiwogaxepebuditano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilltop1976.com/clients/24685/File/89614100007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14eaeb7f8ccb61e168f9e77bcbc68e9d/guwisubobuvutitem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c29a9d0549---44970904195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d2bfc53a9---nikifiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ua91grooe1vu46f6ie7orfmi73/41845473260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e44414ae9b1---9669805407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/pekedetiguperif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36c801e69b14a34433f71fe9831b347c/kilopami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=plural+of+niecePDF 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_off0000db9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB9D 10164 bytes
SHA-256: 691e5a6ee9ed27ef15f5ef7a22618bb0d6505e1c749ac6e667f567069f88449c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f26c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF26C 17112 bytes
SHA-256: e85154306d1e2d650dff632433f17b94b40e5387dcf413f585873e21c6d510ca
font_02_sfnt_off00011efb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EFB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1