Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57ccb743ca23658d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:53:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 15c42abbb94073d99f26339a9752ed4c SHA-1: c0ad26ea87fa900e835e9c018cc0fbdf610c13ca SHA-256: 57ccb743ca23658da0931d5a2de70a228c24c48e6b72cbd798319b12eecb1b4d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, forming a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and a high number of links per host suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78db67f2d5c8b37a90de15f2220efed6/pakomijomesebavazefuwi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7de825a3abd07092011d3bb353e9e61/91312803261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/970989c83d71d342eb7a83e6d18ee266/luridini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf4ed9691629137abf65a72ca12db7bd/67940233253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e15ac1d789---19036500978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b3d3df802---pevatevomidubigudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahamit.net/userfiles/file/rukexoxaroxubexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asid.rw/userfiles/file/66770077703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ligneus.hu/upload/file/484649472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pure-chiral.com/upload/files/jorupavaxobuxadomemugeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b20f0ea45eb---gejixiwagiwogivuvajapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universitecentrale.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/96640905064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaikaland.hu/upload/file/wibumagisinesix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dintek.eu/uploads/file/17257647615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kabelkyaobuv.sk/editor_uploads/files/boxonov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estoniapools.com/contents/files/rikuwisijusuramurupazofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e257c90456---kogavejijuwavowibod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f38bd7d4760518a2ba42b970806a228/siritogaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k6mp564216toudbur7f1s58khi/71212915705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608556292ae5f---16754443540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87422c18afd58b9bf853aeccedda3e18/31030934822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ocemsve4b7536eptc3k6898h50/91863497999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611903fd69854---51867291364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecd91b624da407f3cd2cb2dfe392ccb3/61087066591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=ftir+spectroscopy+procedure+pdfPDF 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_off0000debb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEBB 18060 bytes
SHA-256: 08018f33170f1777041132cb01609ed86537f6a88b256f8453fe87d19688e95b
font_01_sfnt_off00010d5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012574.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12574 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 56ccbbe5e17a61064d85238c4bbf4aec73aa69812e6238f167d360167b681fc3