Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57cac41b768be50e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-09-14 20:29:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: acfbf2d7c4155259c18ad098bec4fa36 SHA-1: 37b356aa34080cd5a42464db344f6baa740eb171 SHA-256: 57cac41b768be50e3b1a5d6bfe822c1fabc3e807e6fd9dafd1856cf81877ad84
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple unknown URLs, with several hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://pro-group.ru/userfiles/files/81720934380.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/tabopejanumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skmsm.com/userData/board/file/82530881358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eluvial.com/sites/all/sites/eluvial.com/files/4963149263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c89b91a1d1a99e06aa9d8b7e05aedd8f/lelusujixogitudagatek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgo-bage.com/public/files/files/83001774818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayer.cn/d/files/zebudazazigisiwugitorilul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okvin.org/userfiles/file/lejavebaledexadisimoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widerbet.pl/userfiles/file/37693795553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mediawerf.nl/bundles/store24backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mesezotexefojufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotdeals24x7.com/ci/userfiles/files/narigofuzij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/sudimejekita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bevillelecomte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sirugomikinamibevor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6u2h03du5nqstvgqubmmhkic1/11684489990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psiakocky-potisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taruduvurijawekak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://textstricker.de/benutzerdateien/45886848025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://299-45.com/CKEdit/upload/files/werek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stoka-saarlouis.de/userfiles/file/96888147862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2683b5d9d762050f8c1bd7f12a2ae97f/dawowenomidobovowon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/851bbbf209db0f42ae8dfc133588f5f8/78226962430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/44634507119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613859065942b---febase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metall-press.ru/files/zabowovazoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ebe7c6fa05---kikubulagefur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vadizul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=hidden+android+secret+codes+and+hacksPDF 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_off0000fa1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA1B 17820 bytes
SHA-256: 66067c7917f8be07e383bb6da78f0ec4bc602146a0bef45d7db574de91fd28b9
font_01_sfnt_off000128db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000140f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140F2 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 729e77d5fc8a512e8c2a5311ca561d763e7cb50f414acf7ea7ce669e67a37f35