Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57b4a595304c1f44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:24:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 1e16ad6f6776d2b64f740fb2229344d4 SHA-1: e57c4221c5497269d206e10bda7a6c8e17d7e199 SHA-256: 57b4a595304c1f4443ea772df4edfb103af086d4b4e35f33156eb0aa819ed44b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to lead the user to a malicious second stage.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=environmental+problems+solutions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3aa24fdc40d07080c7556d92e25c73fa/sumubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbjg7ctfs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e568e609fa01797225ce9a42765fbab/fatulazetuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xosobacninh.vn/webroot/img/files/xajazapiliboxenurif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkhd.cz/data/img/tirumesoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalabsrl.it/userfiles/files/21030557700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f4d44551d---kegagewexusupuzukurulum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/15900484244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gljqdlck0478s4o2bmo7e03h0j/95840831167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/zudasubotumebavibug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaretti.it/userfiles/files/piper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/033a7e322f686b4c1eb65300603e7d13/wogagibipurunuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b017ead013dbc718fbfeae03507adfd9/jivuziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8cc60f6da75ad52cfd6762186cbf0fc/84364600484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa45e171a3---56061168727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://computerzone.pk/file/93067031168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c98aeec6f0---27493655010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/94741416859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cribpointonline.org/cribpointonline/userimages/file/fisesodisutubir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1610d6c179b038---watiberubixilovemeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/46710374940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/vuzobex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5b7ed2e395---70924913849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://havefuntogether.com/image/upload/File/12894093602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngnjl.com/userfiles/files/57472397010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3e2266e23---42778127415.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_off0001214f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1214F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013966.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13966 10948 bytes
SHA-256: dd3a818261707a9a5a74debcf746cd83605cd5d45fa44c20f812034080381255
font_02_sfnt_off00015280.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15280 17772 bytes
SHA-256: 125d9cad65608e1c4f27d02add77fc56930aab38bed52d92d67043fcd84c94cf

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