Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57b1008a2e04d3ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.6 KB Created: 2021-07-14 00:55:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 197bc41753660707b0fe86c6aac60246 SHA-1: c76ef7dba1b990add818b9bfa8423e973826c34c SHA-256: 57b1008a2e04d3ea3eb4325d2e92e4cae1ab27c7a93371f4d9c4697f3047d590
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7b6b1092ed767abab26aff7796f998e/18197571617.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/zuvisexifidivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vds-construct.pl/userfiles/file/razevupijekudugogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b65aba67b---49419011754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47v8qd2on5dbb6ft3kci5jel7q/91822381988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/117da9679cf0a60eee5cdc59bd3b928b/77706093457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfdd16ef1bd---97192678809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/88546080059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc97331b714---53080656437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izumrud38.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64853919048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/12546052363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5bcf860cc4---52373255083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderjamesbackcatalogue.com/userfiles/file/18388563625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/30451819714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flyingcarpetclementines.com/userfiles/files/93306827534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096f57ba05b9---33816249098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847d8264d9c---74170917834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carrieres-pierre.com/userfiles/file/rajidafikon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t8d6cofsd9ugpdae8a6le5vh12/fiwijisiranaripe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ib37l37ug81t2bvcncvmld2cp/19350372448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/99919195784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-eg.com/userfiles/file/sajemabenarosilovaruzop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2d3868e31e979a4b2f7bb2bb45d37fb/kobesobujefuvarumiwasudup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a754bf605c4---79984450835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dfjep2tu6848m0m3llhn7uogt/17570038088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b77602d738---kepujatuwifapaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=excel+sheet+function+listPDF 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_off0001165d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1165D 10356 bytes
SHA-256: 3c8c5333bd7a6cb09709b684425ee24f3a5c20a28dc00b513f9a38dede70726d
font_01_sfnt_off00012db5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DB5 17916 bytes
SHA-256: 65bf7ad4ea426dd6066298391ca114c970cb5f847ad89fb8f3a0a78ecb4d32a9
font_02_sfnt_off00015d0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D0F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1