Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57812ca038d92596…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-08-18 11:13:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f44162bb5616d191bfaf32be48436481 SHA-1: a8423e54814f2f76b8efcff08c4e89fde42a931e SHA-256: 57812ca038d9259689a6c17218c700a0b0b65c6bf1b9e39a7fdb2df1121d984b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, aligning with spearphishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fnaf+survival+logbook+pdf+espa%C3%B1ol PDF link annotation
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0034180e80---57763580395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://licorne-hotel-restaurant.com/userfiles/file/75359609984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vvk-wiedermann.at/userfiles/file/wemewewofewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salwex.hu/file/jabasoxinagikiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0d68af9bd6ae60eaea796dda6b50250/2461756724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///59222427397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e19edd217b1639dbcaca90ff54e33b8/bepisumolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyshiying.com/d/files/82391145133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/nofagafufesiroxale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5sh7b1tje4m5ffmdvml5hvr9jl/87443016267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce44651be4d---66485405275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b7524527c8efeb9727fce58706309ba/13713077694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea41599757a6d5cb5254bbd19c41d369/13068731729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foulardfotografando.it/file/karugibanimir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanantamhcm.com/uploads/files/45334919235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4f525350924838d85b747c2157e2c4a/vuwusideji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g56giu6n63omu9g8b04336e3h3/63749349907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c03b5dec0a1894a000e55a7f8268a919/mapazatobaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/valimamixavovoretudoviza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9n937s3ladvptlg62m28c8ukep/gejexobofuvaroweruru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sro52.ru/uploads/files/felazugukepefosupivamibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://157.230.241.115/image/upload/File/ronelebumizijizofuzepa.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d87dd874ab---zupivopebareman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/fenibirudibesijolobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanjen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tijele.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_off0000de21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE21 18228 bytes
SHA-256: 6ceb179051a5a535862eebd6a6d3b6257c711e008c4ea5b385894c8693ca78a5
font_01_sfnt_off00010c77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C77 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001248e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1248E 11156 bytes
SHA-256: b845717659f4438c61aca0fcadda33b462804e1979a64985f15b00faaf2b3e4c