Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57a24abd1b35f9d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-07-14 07:25:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: ad31ced9a6538330c3f30bfaec8f7e5f SHA-1: 97c558a41bc56fdf87f3128556bf93ef69f6893b SHA-256: 57a24abd1b35f9d3eb38f0bae53883dffdde8a7183e92a139fbcacd2430f177a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a+thing+distinctly+hard+to+say PDF link annotation
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7ed5f2882---bibegufivizugezowagodili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/rodekesezovebexujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785c17ca892---vefavepevodedepavog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b29a33666---gomegi.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/98284973090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsse.cl/files/56564698266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c30b567fe---21778704782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843e4ba95ba---80849076006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilieroccasion.fr/uploads/file/79216624706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parejalecaros.com/adjunto/upload/fck/files/31842946456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c70a8906ad6c975a015c619a2ff0ece4/66523927548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2a76cef5a2496f34737da40a9d5bb60/98756065955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nipaboxapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096057a568fb---71719724032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202105/file/tikuwimexipawilulale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahattinburyan.com/userfiles/file/nutizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/scp12c9hv8eb3d9c23nu1dur0p/46690710240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmyc.net/clients/875386/File/lenakenava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6351e3555---nagem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/zaredewidebojofexav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amy-tsai.com/images_express/userfiles/files/lewopex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fbc9e2ef763bef9e730a976aa0d29c5/vewolugifexinunaromowumal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae7716ad6c2---zepivaluroganoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c285722bc0---37333739356.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_off0000f036.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF036 17176 bytes
SHA-256: 52fe1c91f6ad087ef983b2c98b815e48b3478ef34941f2135c4d487d996d550b
font_01_sfnt_off00011d1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D1F 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 7d4647c0af8c1f525ae1b94a8741422a9b3c184da1edd2abd982e0f2faeaef98
font_02_sfnt_off00013523.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13523 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1