Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57ea425c067f8601…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-08-27 18:56:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 10344376aab940b51f65faa9d8237c58 SHA-1: d584f267e2b145f6d82f6ebcdda9571eee20bca3 SHA-256: 57ea425c067f8601c94786c61dacb1e0fe6c47e5846e014aebf4558bbd57d352
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous external URIs, many hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, indicates a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The file likely serves as a lure to distribute further payloads or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=davis+and+cornwell+introduction+to+environmental+engineering+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mctqenr2hpcjm8ovqid1pj2pk2/36286118884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterboatdeliverance.com/uploads/files/fibesodosejejenibunodese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushigonewildtogo.com/uploads/files/suratasutakunutime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.cz/upload/doveruzenas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63b333c9e14b9a4911111df628c912e6/lapulalevate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villapellegrino.it/userfiles/files/pesamegulelesixexejom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/096204bc63ce53b69b04f05e28d9999b/gifowomigadajizilub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilsports.ro/userfiles/file///82968825846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ad6e9fd64---firafagutunojikatepezeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmlukanich.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/43649594378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bjla90rt4landv2o13i2etr2i2/55493211119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60083113066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e2863cbcb8f89fc0e509e01ec416c34/61850284316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b978e099f42---fesurogedawed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldapromosyon.com/calisma2/files/uploads/58672248243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromavials.com/d/files/biwofok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paykaaluminiya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86965957351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jpjplumbingandheating.com/FCKeditor/file/93802070358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fb294a4e02a18f501eecd0bd256122d/81364158583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adice-area.com/pictures/files/juvikozifomunazerofedetep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0d990ecef---vigaginudakaroxodipaxoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmoretv.com/userfiles/88700163201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floral-design-lindgens.de/userfiles/file/72885234508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupophi.es/uploads/files/zexulopebuporaveteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb79e921a15d2f8189e0e6ac1f4fd3bf/tofujuselejiluvita.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_off0000d107.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD107 17772 bytes
SHA-256: ded5ae6528a9210677aad4cbbbb3a5cbab2b976f4035386c678b0c24ccb0b3f1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF3E 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 3bcf63a563095e31b4696f454ccc810671573d9c99d88e9c65c46729764412bd
font_02_sfnt_off00011966.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11966 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1