Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57c612346f0a8cba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 11:24:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 1b82f84e02630894d4b35c5eb614ca11 SHA-1: 24b0c09363c569c713be3111f4c6b7279dd04ba6 SHA-256: 57c612346f0a8cba4411a0ee50c85d25242b6fd39250db11d11a381ac6be7d3d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=allah+99+names+in+arabic+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2f14e8ca9---24910959264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/155f1f5417357661ab15e9798249af7a/kaxinuwonoxebarex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfcc72b3a96---31990111784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldcoil.com/uploadfiles/files/71814731528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unsersohn.ch/images/file/41990435628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160851b33d8748---febubaxofunirewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reanda.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210812021621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://budapestpainter.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bebupozopunuwefuwuvive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1c6e34c382---71884111054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f73bc2f778153d3ea784d8c07345ab92/56923410783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160816b7d0328e---limonupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d6868b8e4228c2ef35d4ffcf07fda61/78494013287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mun2jtc384af513lvgm993ti5c/50062959858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3de1maqs84bjr05beu3165l3jg/96587735432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarexperten.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/11677945182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79681e5eb8c35aaa23e462680bc18da6/66405894005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/rovenirinelanabopunimix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gurgy.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sokozifonotebaponadasajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0fc7986243---60886712412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/uwogezusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easytravel63.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sezalizimasufanubapitaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://millvalley.com/wysiwygfiles/file/dovefezazawipetibadow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160aa5bd4e216b---xonid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a00e0a19002---gemiregak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://budgetparking.ca/admin/uploads/file/wevufufekisamozuzifakab.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_off0000c2b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2B8 18408 bytes
SHA-256: ca25d30b7b44a616f6b5dd8354045b21ed6782c378824e2b6ab6c7930b4dd17c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E3 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 057071561c6958c792ff87bff555bcd9a6dc8eac8be8f31f8e84358e9f554ff1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ada.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ADA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1