Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57df3d6471cd0a66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-08-21 19:31:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: fe41af2b3326733834312febecdb0a3a SHA-1: e5b6ab21c83abd49348fc93027977a45a379b398 SHA-256: 57df3d6471cd0a66dbeb350ae38ffea81b667c944c8874ea2f72f71713c3a73b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=game+speed+booster+miui+11+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4bb7c5e595---boxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmp-traueranzeigen.de/cms/files/46625103117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d011c56c6---narebajakuzaresix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saimiri.name/upload/file/21382873126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eraldocomo.it/userfiles/files/12390764247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brazilairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xukokixegobesebalawegof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9t9ik5jm2rib2ph3b7lsgs8q0c/4248230214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpsoft.shop/upload/files/dawedaregizalubewador.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/blobtft0fb8ong84c9diudo155/junopokijopifobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhakhoasaigonkimcuong.com/uploads/images/files/xiniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f328325ca7748dd7b47d2638d3567ec/82182371445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/kajireza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/400ee0bca942a49c6cc5aef5bc1e13b3/44739064890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tanriovermensucat.com/uploads/genel/files/63684532783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsclassof1959.com/clients/a/a7/a7a82b2a6025f7fafce5d77be70bf845/File/litejiwipexozer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e8aedb3fa---15934322569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/wokijopizov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/28048763645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccjsc.com/images/uploads/files/23290606227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///xotekijegikujinikolesusal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830a432e59d---88377197935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/352a0d558c230075a26220571a6d1f05/94820545524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ins12tgtouhsbkvhhec5087drg/sozeruzaditudarim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb546c7b3f9---45631447502.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_off0000f0e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000108fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108FE 10824 bytes
SHA-256: b2b863ad262670f16d00446644cb5150acd50ec13c622214e0f2ac621648f617
font_02_sfnt_off000121d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121D1 17536 bytes
SHA-256: fb3cd91c6092e7263ca37b31b6fe38d5cdef5f5e73a0135760c3ca0de9fa3e9b