Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57108d8ada31221c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-06 20:14:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e6d2a67095aaa5ba75f8073343794f91 SHA-1: a0f00dbd308fae2f2e2a27dd8b7c58b0cac29cc2 SHA-256: 57108d8ada31221c4bf336669c151889fc177977111634dbe5dd3e903f5c9e03
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs hosted on potentially compromised websites. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to distribute phishing content or malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=small+bird+with+a+yellow+chest PDF link annotation
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00a02d93e93818cfbc2217d17116f9a2/kitekuvojuruximuram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc42d0b038---78540948699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nc4r3kp3hsi69ms327plns9f07/25376678216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81a34c14c685dee73a43308fecc6c351/85209828739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afea06c83a7c17fc860ff767a11e230f/30188451589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607613a74df90---32955724138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb05162dbe0---rojepizasigitaxobikufaroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/vezesejaroredi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panama4d.com/contents//files/saginitonutidezilajelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97e05d9936ba70333ad2c297c5a7daee/famaxopixexonawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60707382a07c46363985aa321d851a8b/99513007289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609863430ea37---73254612637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/92832324525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bb231e8b4---sekatezudaraponeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesartsdansmonjardin.com/userfiles/file/20210607003742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160911de5a890a---71297832688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime-standard.com/piceditor/file/66350209103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160bd5746ba04d---vokuzagudixevigenadalov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tqcdqto6islv0ilbmfv8g1fiur/tedigabejosomewifopapixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/94330738052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2r7assf5jsfi7onb3ti1os53vn/65885516470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f2d8cfbe4---11049101447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/rizusukanusojudusibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/zeronorerijabafalegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4bc2e00639---15076123712.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_off0000eea5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEA5 16904 bytes
SHA-256: f502571feb9b42bd9739d762f09f0ea6afa667238a68fe20c73b02bf01726524
font_01_sfnt_off00011a93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A93 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 8ee455bafc240c7dbdb883badd562b1f9789066567bbc2684b0c5bbb755fdf43
font_02_sfnt_off000133f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1