Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57edbc9401a5a0d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:49:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 05ef5808129ec2b0dfe845e77f3490ae SHA-1: 6f166e67ece0cbaf49c653da5fe320c3132f3c95 SHA-256: 57edbc9401a5a0d26c1998318a98644ce25862ae9dee63457cdb4ff6e88d6a9c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs indicates a potential phishing or SEO poisoning campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.thic.net/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vusifivosonotesirolape.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5af0e404f4---paxosaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landpas.pl/upload/file/4180933328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee6c40c584---55749759017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonafideonline.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/140ba3753101de5493dbbca98ca59723/sujafomozilemorogos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietfun.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06e77le01fb9uct9vblm1fckrp/66133762107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9596d22f3e---wunufenija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4ab24b81652a50d95ae31c84fbd0b4d/nawugifipoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synfarm.com/upload/files/80634166331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0dd0b20e6---pubuzopitomuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://6nergy.fr/6nergy/sites/default/user/file/zezogabuvevovimiduwadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/85379898829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d267a89f0---89272699437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odessahighschool1970.com/clients/7/70/70263b1be1b93b62200e198143f59f20/File/53720678771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa62fbc82dd35af8ef0229a2149cf6f7/73839451487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jessie.vn/images/ckeditor/files/dekuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremyco.com/app/webroot/docs/file/mufazafet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://townofwinslowin.com/flash/townofwinslowin.com/file/32449202290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-cosmik.ru/sadm_files/bobenidomewesifipetadoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/zikizasafosatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aclamerica.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/rajane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diaochue.vn/userfiles/file/77480210210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c82a05ef5cdd53adfcffa08888fee09f/vatulogixorolokopagoluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ed47d04367---3022900643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2a9bdd794e---50536510086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=fbi+cointelpro+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_off0000cf26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF26 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e73d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE73D 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 861e1e6acf4dc1a5b6f6c53856fa2ead03536eea054590a2f9f43e7b08edcb16
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE9B 17480 bytes
SHA-256: 969a96d36e878a8a545845b745e8d8bb4217d0180f2665710ac9392b8fef381f