Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 570a2ce2037f99b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-05-12 05:37:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3f6ed65ee3e17b0941d35f64460252c1 SHA-1: 6ab36e4e3b8667d240ea0917fa90c34826200fb5 SHA-256: 570a2ce2037f99b5ffe032d64a245cc5f599b22d3eae8eddc77047066e2f06b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious content, likely a phishing lure disguised as an academic paper template.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=elsevier+paper+template.+doc PDF link annotation
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/7064788480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf600be0264746785f1789a50adb9530/fejepal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ude11ka9o2dno0ajik60j3p63k/45387886568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j3dq69vdnoei5tjrh9qgqiuo9u/farasavulomoruxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csptech.net/admin/userfiles/file/xagubabotofozoveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.demetagras.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f840f78780---62894171230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/49967896890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/koger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f47ed27141f123ddec6eb455e9611c61/runovopipusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61b261510ad33cffa4037b378525ebbf/92517687023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03e4d0f98746bf5b692c7a2a831e31d4/54338612571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608621dba3f00---sivifotukejarisesogajifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4rqe7r11a27iol87cp93goevmq/51674793768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786e382be1d---jipetiwole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/icdtkmt45k5fhqqjrp7u17gtll/faderaguvedadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i41t61hs5tac0ns3s6dse3ito2/49209731148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/30529670729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d15b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD15B 4948 bytes
SHA-256: bd0302a8d705421f7c1a5f45edbbd8cc73250d723fc017df955378eefb6ad58c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e234.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE234 10720 bytes
SHA-256: ff85916fdcf6a6cb2317d130428ba903a95fe4555b0b014788a0e56103079e12
font_02_sfnt_off000106c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106C9 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3