Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57b3fe73a064950c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-21 01:31:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 07164aa004128de08a5125a91bd12485 SHA-1: 2a8191479f5116c80ea814649597cfe393d5ecc2 SHA-256: 57b3fe73a064950c7c849c2eb42d1c07d6ae54f0d1994b1c9c3203b6399f2dcf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file acts as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The use of compromised CMS upload links is a common tactic to host malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f5bb6bde75---wiwisekolavexiduko.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9e54e41e0---31843343706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/900f8fb16a2d4f8cbb1c9f76502ae079/80727349896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89268fd00549ecdb1524af35a14a0cd8/xilelomegomomap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bb4e20a2b2---bukisulanivosonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090331bcff28---vagesetazapomobeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70161d9ac2b16faa3f0198d292120459/muwalaziforusajiwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f8ba77abf178b7a4dc405b78e56cd7e/piwowivoxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jrvu21qka3afqvvvq8c9p3eqaf/52928653441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeriadevita.it/userfiles/files/kuludaludefomowuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/14758399664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609803edca8f4---sezudovogapifoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacongtrinh.vn/upload/files/gabaniban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gwardiajuvenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/65799342120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b35e45f93---11008221073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c120e78c989fbf785260c1c10f323922/pukizoliso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.evisiontiendaonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fivapopuwotilorufixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/64178183624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a800a9f4d---46784249432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubesquilacoma.com/uploads/files/92137316719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/dexupafipuralusosidetobez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tg8kqubn0cjstfg9ecdacm9l79/94478121967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcc0f75c499cfa376273387153dce1c6/32255592718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/masanilezowojarariva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nmglyxx.com/userfiles/file/boxibefixolopigub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ecf3ad5f9e---92904927119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=squid+and+cuttlefishPDF 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_off0000f280.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF280 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 666adce58a767268bccbdc29eff714fedc1a57525097b63788443db1165fa2f4
font_01_sfnt_off00010aac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AAC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122BE 16876 bytes
SHA-256: 48a31221e5ad6aebb5deac6ceb9b8facf1a06c6fa73977068f28d7276ccac6d0