Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57d4bfdca8d16582…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 00:29:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 512185a69826f6d326c8f08003f30fff SHA-1: cf7328b327fdb7ae52a76ab8de7109e99f71cfbd SHA-256: 57d4bfdca8d1658201b20b6e3ce7f74dc3ff593d447de4cde8642b4eb037af8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a URL with a 'utm_term' parameter related to game downloads implies a lure to trick users into clicking and potentially downloading malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+san+andreas+for+android+download+for+free PDF link annotation
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ud93es3sft0debsja1ppmc7e0/jubovozadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076de0a8e9fc---11809393590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d676872bdd---nanutaxojaduzoxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cdcfe6317ca91bd14b47ad8dfc73434/nuramuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs60to70.com/clients/3/32/32806278e47d7e4d905c37b1d6ebf04a/File/33662908671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3c1273bc8d9f6d6842bd2072650a223/daxigopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2110427c9---96023324484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mcktd0oqhqgifdevsci9b504v8/sobuvomavosusokanav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb64923642---daviwoguzobamebagadozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f499b752b70aab4432a0889f9ea6a65d/lulit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbdc6a06b7d1e255ed39341f0ddf1111/88704292859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webelievedin1984.com/clients/6/67/676624d6593aa512bfa6e10e765af00e/File/gepuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210620154332_fxg1n1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dd2945a47d---62583014281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16ac6dfefa---fumururu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://essiac.cz/UserFiles/file/47630877195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucnhacuagio.com/upload/files/20071513015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783ca01615b---jowugovono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/vigiguvowerofuturefefosig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56jojbfm0t7de4281r6j92jbof/noxomiloxinosunaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ac0deb2f3d9cc792ac956fffdccfefe/83456498489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmi21gj9hsop4imtvjgfin0aa6/52716156234.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_off0000eb83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB83 16608 bytes
SHA-256: b00f76190c9e2fc564d1d35b634ea7c3a790499abb84d2f1be1c2202b437629c
font_01_sfnt_off00011692.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11692 10472 bytes
SHA-256: ca3b904cda2504a4a8b7f20c6186b89a44d15034bdf764ef25c7e72bcc414433
font_02_sfnt_off00012e92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E92 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1