Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57be6471ebb0324a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-06-10 06:14:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f8f3c08ccea00f7d30837ddff583e7f3 SHA-1: d21c4309006577fb3d5ff9f21841aee700e61020 SHA-256: 57be6471ebb0324ae53cf1d244e87cfc0bcc3690f48612af67ea817c4478407e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vidmate+apk+download+new+version+2020+for+pc PDF link annotation
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90275c5df11c57b722ba39574b9222af/48222799507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f5d49ad28880ea9f91b8836ec72e9fc/69811274323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafe-malaysia.com/contents/file/buxewewigurikefirasisanet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e3d5bad36---tixinavawigejujabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2c339ab0f33c57fa3207368a7a6b5bf/62985976405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1529c93d52b03669cfe8613af35e16e5/61617135484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8adcbd58fb11a53a280547c9b1766fa6/komebesatufelawakibolafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a294955514a---28158578442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xejudepowagaboseber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01a23cd2d1a1343c6494eabaa94f2b44/xujivuwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/072e20b42b91b1f2af2cb5d9035f9117/99381844588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a080d0a84---21315544396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb2a77c229---33747174656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f653d8db9f21d4a541919a7b00982df2/21823494668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffd267acaa7cef6b33a1af2c9b323371/nejoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mtbe2aerbebq70eiacphgpctjg/tozawagonawuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210520080826_3lxcg2.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB6F 5756 bytes
SHA-256: 85dc4a90b5c26686ea060f805e5dd10b0009037935532b99a455ae9911b27ac3
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF14 14476 bytes
SHA-256: 990b782ac409ed9fa55f313e9109f624c9aa11abb1a3b4b4f6f00d75a270ce2b