Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57e242a0e92aefce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-07-30 13:15:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b99042eb4fbf6cce26e69cd71ac4af6c SHA-1: 41d5d8d3e2777e33751ec729abc1860face524d1 SHA-256: 57e242a0e92aefcecfe3cb617a8dbfb84c4ddbb9bdbdc83c8a726ccc377ce0b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://bouwservicewinthagen.nl/userfiles/image/file/43818919715.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86ca3afc7f7f77d77e428941e2463c90/42688569435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/wototakakopigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoongnau.com/upload/files/lewurajigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsagco.com/Upload/file/74882449324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ev0cumftjp6391roiae47q2aqf/90137794826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/37370486907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uss100.com/clients/5/56/562308f4da1da23328cfd9e5c9f3e68f/File/88599427746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfd316c1458a71a5bab9fdaa39331c85/55017586935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ef7cac877b---96606681434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/golipikivedanunes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20ca35a34e75612b9ed29038e5a5f83a/25622542157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b11kh5l.com/ckupload/files/jikapuxagufakixuramu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preserveproperties.com/userfiles/files/guzuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/disafaviputiverepamiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flynewsletter.com/uploads/file/pibololiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36f9bd676765dc77582186f1896aa68d/xokegujifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisma.ru/files/pages/files/26606618796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c863c8ce6a368ba31207323b8f6ced3c/tijebizafokepet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dcbfc30038---sizarivefeniwuwevoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a3ef692f15---73971124609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rrbrentacars.com/files/others/zebevexaziki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redactron.com/userfiles/file/xotime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vnv.nu/admin/library/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zalomimokuwemarakakujefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=piano+adventures+primer+level+performance+book+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_off0000c7a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7A8 11180 bytes
SHA-256: 63ac0d96750caf6d0f9e5df9416b29446fcc98dff6ffb7ff8a3ab45be37cc863
font_01_sfnt_off0000e19d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE19D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9AF 17404 bytes
SHA-256: a5107f74fc92c657d846cae805df786b99c191cb878587c1185235e1238d6b91