Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57af001fd6b537e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-06-18 14:25:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d6777a599229fba401ff9e69fbab1f29 SHA-1: 82baea173aaaf82d8c57ec430501c5f27947aa30 SHA-256: 57af001fd6b537e899ffb61a342ff62da84b0b6b7cda7f5a7bb2ff92071900ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for distributing further malware or phishing for credentials. The document's structure and embedded URLs align with common tactics for spearphishing attachments.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=engineering+mechanics+dynamics+13th+ed PDF link annotation
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e67c08ae5f---98928957297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/20215262052296075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/35768740725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23anbdmm4r5u8kv2o5f608hs03/91096638297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fee109d9dfda17af1d5fd728bba313d2/joweguvonuwojidejuwatuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff5ee9cb61---tafekugowizikavizezunoxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7a71bda7c87659dee101f1f0cdfca8e/85222060077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/1373845776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btcauction.vn/hinhanh/file/10356472335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090befdbbd0b---25933756764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728c144a4de---mugimuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/38118496576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/83532082562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/58731260996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbgmggbjg6e3akb40usq2brqn4/90518515930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000c349.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC349 5596 bytes
SHA-256: fb03fc3d8d6f0c02b74cdf5d9b53d2e47fa1dd4facd0aa8e536021a140fe7c62
font_01_sfnt_off0000d63a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD63A 11012 bytes
SHA-256: f283c84293e217a3ba7b239a3163fab7e490853a494e29211e781b3c4df5bf83
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC01 16120 bytes
SHA-256: ba48f2ffbff7df6af79b757b79858ad57ebe3ef392f17d4830966e9c1b5b3ff4