Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57f3ae7590261d49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-02 09:04:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4e6c5ad064a7365ad30527b109a508d1 SHA-1: 0deed7401ced62956d45aad1175b254468f8d2cb SHA-256: 57f3ae7590261d49c912c5feb56e62a5ae58fdfa325ce3d6648de2dbc25a82ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and link farms, suggest an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish for information. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, likely contains lures related to banking or exam papers, aligning with common phishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=banking+exam+question+papers+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41b99b5334cd97bbf1bbaeaac6a0f2c4/30745696978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/bilokataxedibupumoxofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c6ed696721a175153d3860c0be3fdf7/vadago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/anhueeln73i25auini953o0v92/84778815525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607536d08d495---81843654256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/22587981597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vydavatelstvoklett.sk/userfiles/file/mokenazosipefem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/at1f3ibedjdav5p3a6gnat9hok/32913887503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/59884024717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ff93ffe7c72e0707f4b93424ffc29a0/kobixakisirixuboguvelami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/77028336367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb6b0a3e227794880f3e42ccc9fe7445/90573765030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/3286382812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763503569c1---2920628148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecovn.vn/uploads/news_file/32404591692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mintaialuminum.com/d/files/24432281301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquecharacters.com/upload/files/3486443093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmsschoolkg.org/userfiles/file/moxokejolil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01juqj32fkv7acc4i8e6ijt597/10200053971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siposferenc.hu/html/nifufiwakoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bdccfa41dc4108f2e3ea7ae09def16c/belitowibozewazawoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kath-kiga-bw.de/bilder/berichte/file/takabovesokerofigoxezide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chaplains-camps.org/upload_picture/file/96916992891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevoir.hu/uploads/file/27530602721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/gepibikafiluwirofupeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf1d5fbda26c9ec55f314abc47ad4c43/86711595532.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_off0000e872.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE872 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010084.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10084 16988 bytes
SHA-256: c808111893094b39fdbd17415a728d2a2f395b675b6bab9e19075e801e650cb2
font_02_sfnt_off00012cfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CFC 11288 bytes
SHA-256: 142c9eb2eca4ef2158afd232872d65994b325bb93c25f0419e03ddcf84b42d57