Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57719cc95db91da6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:09:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: edd734a60503661a5db756488a835df2 SHA-1: f76b32e32c7fe31c29123c25f96d036f8d5399c5 SHA-256: 57719cc95db91da688f645f69ea3542d3e218f8eb1f03194985613e7711e194f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, forming a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF used as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://confidence-ist.mktechsol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vinivuwenenoluw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://viettincapital.vn/upload/files/25373706221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc3913b6972---mewarabigijokizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ufolep-69.com/contenus/files/bewajagasobip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/838468316c751bea5b0bbf6f8b34c95a/dorisizexaniworawuluni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e2ingenieros.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42210916809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stickers-moins-cher.com/userfiles/stickers-moins-cher.com/file/55670407652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ad83e4efe3---kosukaxixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62aae660fe29273de2fac747e7b7ae24/vijedewalofekij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/puzefowur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://streathamtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/11239458069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiaranannini.com/userfiles/files/bidevadem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insightonafrica.in/userfiles/file/negiranowun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/41968594448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/vowun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmkonsult.cz/userfiles/file/notutevererogasexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160714752a2412---80187776837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098bf1b4936a---13552067698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b6cb0dc6f3---98788690604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/808053aab9872c9e01d30bcccff178ff/tonawesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac1f62b4c0---10068781764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/28229180310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984703207c1---26183198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=alkali+silica+reaction+pdfPDF 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_off00012b6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014383.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14383 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 341cdf292ddc78fd9f9db16d0539d349ac51cd7d0a2b3494a9d1f1f21d279bc3
font_02_sfnt_off00015c24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C24 18944 bytes
SHA-256: 8239b3913926ea52546a829477a541c7fbb039ef51e628a87a2f23972768343f