Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57becc206c5b5b47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-08-01 09:28:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1dd71dadd66f206b74c5ce6846a1b3c8 SHA-1: 03feb780523217c66dec9ac4af201b19c38e44db SHA-256: 57becc206c5b5b477cfae649db6fb0882943e19bb9be3cc3e1000c33fb3add07
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links hosted on compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a visual download button lure further supports the phishing and malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://balogmihaly.hu/UserFiles/file/6488922022.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rc-mst.com/mst/_upload/files/84723926687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioindelicato.com/userfiles/files/19922699882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4567e757757a489526e70a07d2388eb/zitimunivizelikigorat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uf1rnpnio4iamgb5oajkreifo2/dunevogotojodepasedaxidor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g59743j7p24r7e6bp4tl004ort/weduxudafuvev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/nifuvukepapimidezex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/guboxanefanufipelurulato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4043523857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuehllawpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/56171180219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12b4b9390cafa0bf951000b12501b276/77725302286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/bulimonera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banquat.com/userfiles/files/65489331706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfe.hk/userfiles/bosavinobovapajowep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708d5724075---20383275798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098336c95aef---97755472249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-kayros.com/userfiles/file/53766390068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1623584164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fggmm0l1hv1ngeci6vlnamfuji/88535695808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a79f49d654b941899ba46f48b6c28c21/83289451768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cd303868e---67909205754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/tinumuvif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquarium-kochi.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pixevaxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maisonforville.be/documents/file/taxanafifanafofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=ice+age+full+movie+in+hindi+dubbed+filmyzillaPDF 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_off0000fb4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB4D 10988 bytes
SHA-256: c6a92d84933fab8f9533117a9c6fbcb7554f09d71dcddb7dd58ca7b91a31e7af
font_01_sfnt_off0001146e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1146E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C80 17556 bytes
SHA-256: 74b86433483299b659a2670ad468813be4b3147947100bb5c7ae75bb67b23a5a