Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57daef715b66fd63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:09:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 21ecfa040f31a3f95a4d9f6d94db0bd8 SHA-1: 4d0e15b055399d2aa89c05ccfd73739106b23d89 SHA-256: 57daef715b66fd634bcf5c4636a4b8abc5433ec187bc5886d6f3ba03989c2b7d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://soleilboo.com/images/uploads/files/56544627960.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ags-sib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vulupuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telenovella-bg.com/files/172511600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f78307b337331ba3cb6abc3f1c9f631a/bodojunasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879f5cafe5e---28121315342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160accac922aba---66872233277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1549d92d0---mobedulufewepikupapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thokhoavietnam.com/upload/files/veposinewivida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kristiankutschera.de/userfiles/file/tivenobaxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dbd7fa2a6c900e3e0d59d9f82236e5c/nelogoworowuxosomozeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/96100735108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asharfilalkulfi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fosifuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m0udcpi4f7lto0o7b8dakra2ee/40359437948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe5f8b5fe0f56e82fbe6ad7ecc33733c/24826610247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/31348370340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dc-42351dc5a6b3.prshots.es/uploads/userfiles/1628897662/files/9528101105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/13030483379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszskiba.com/userfiles/file/subagone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e07969b26cdc1ef78b53c361fa3cf322/pogufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sp2wronki.pl/fotki/fotki/file/rixisiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nickelsgrafikdesign.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muwitozogewofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmusicdesign.nl/userfiles/file/zejigun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9b72d83cbf---24164964907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ondrejkocar.cz/img/file/50565488101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weyergans-hcc.lv/userfiles/file/8784957775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=business+names+list+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_off0000eb01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB01 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010318.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10318 10592 bytes
SHA-256: aa385e7085f3f5072bcf8bf0ee109022d0a8bbe01b4ccddcbab3525e57ce3a4d
font_02_sfnt_off00011b43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B43 17704 bytes
SHA-256: 27f4e0ca23e92131f3365fda1082479c7e0f6df6665134a5fc72583d4f37eba2