Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57d32804e1d0225d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-25 06:08:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: afca95e05e71d8dcd2ed624a5f26cf99 SHA-1: d941a33655ea1a9dd64d7aae893e0cee4ec2e99e SHA-256: 57d32804e1d0225d8443395eaaeaa48d47038c30b40e3ce70d7069929039cfe0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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 http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/bazefuxire.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/33524091601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db6689830d---70486288473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://art-ball.net/files/file/85099585863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a64b839b6dfdae8507b138bdcbe917f/kafixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citadelcaralarms.com/userfiles/file/wedozobujozoseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morabia.fi/images/file/rivodotovulixiwejuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mttrasportisrl.it/dati/upload/file/jakurasakego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4ead7587c---43305896504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/garifugemegutoruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tcagvftm6qnrvalcjlo2ecpjl1/83106813883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9vvtq1n6k9ekto5tt4c4c7nff/wudamuluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/006e0b5f01e214621acc2324cc02ec71/7568914949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6545462791ec9dc4c064736ea376b58/bojidifotobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160981d0def3d6---84420924495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f8deaa48d---vunilaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb3f4c61a87---56237259655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gabortech.com/admin/file/46458786263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnlillylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tadijime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=finding+nemo+tamil+dubbed+movie+watch+online+freePDF 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_off0000f6eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6EB 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 63767bffd36890dc39df47ede478582e539c7c76ac7fbd1ac886c621409e7b2f
font_01_sfnt_off00011076.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11076 17340 bytes
SHA-256: c50efd878919fe5f05551c6529cd1797c13d13add43d4021df8b07dd8a5de460
font_02_sfnt_off00013d94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1