Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57492570f0483893…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:11:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d06d0aca4bb32d5e1417d2c3db347179 SHA-1: 77eb513b436d05856f7b99698e874d895184f905 SHA-256: 57492570f04838934c47e95e7393ab00a152dd9ea4a190adbbe52c3271567616
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a malicious PDF detected by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9895

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=yle+sample+papers PDF link annotation
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vm2fu0816d1e9ttn6cnoo6e6j0/33214877376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58ca9024f08a5df1867cdb4e112a2c02/xilumoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ff6db1520---26452761716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76851f3f0fc0a0b3041f5e0d7c0f4f04/16147328228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc2f309c4aa38ad89e26b1d484b3f229/lolisomowidumepesekus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090707fa93e7---22813252143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e8cce3cea1ea9c1edc3c024e82741cf/48034735977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luatsuphutho.com/upload/ck/files/fexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/140b58bd64974ea1e9df63c5624c9206/13790672133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duancanhotot.com/upload/files/57269609032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0b425a0231---deremotidof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a881e83b6---87085463776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65472c0463ba3871047dc27bf632609b/39184049922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilcaminodaugo.it/file/86631804213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startent.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/88631691492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/61038078603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2vp1s73r8a36egck8qo6j24dei/20509035706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facilitymanagementassociates.com/survey/userfiles/files/vejetudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ccd029b35e---jojubomutaxizero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0f2de3eb58378b1e03d6c35706775cb/segati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konferencii.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91563719040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cq9ibsufrkt94c7roncpteoqsv/38723233690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkmmotor.com/files/userfiles/file/64365343185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksuskalology.com/images/file/jixiged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7bcf2556567713938b11ca356601242/75525725762.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fdac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDAC 24916 bytes
SHA-256: 7721e69792c6e04f07d3132e0c5ffc32d7d13b33cbab22a6ef2f4b6b9aa76452
font_01_sfnt_off000135ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135CA 16512 bytes
SHA-256: 29d08b4bba8f58d24a0cc83acc3c71e8db6a8d2b345face9f74cf0ff3f044e0c
font_02_sfnt_off00014cb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CB8 9984 bytes
SHA-256: 34cb7ee907c3896f818bb4c103988f41eb890e11457f0db5cdd8c5f1ebba5c3c
font_03_sfnt_off000162d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1