Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57fda6c3f38f22b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.6 KB Created: 2021-08-15 00:23:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: aaabb87dcbc4ac7f5c32f8cd2323dbd0 SHA-1: 2c005607a935f1f5259a564539cc967deaba6150 SHA-256: 57fda6c3f38f22b1b46039796d52edd0ff0771848440aaa295289ee174bca740
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters in URLs further support the link farm and potential phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manual+de+procedimientos+de+enfermeria+pediatrica+pdf
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b37361d4e25---37401195438.pdf
    • https://mlbcsimleague.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kadike.pdf
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/83482777054.pdf
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c842b9e68d11bdbe182669001ec6084b/22601547934.pdf
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad030f8d173---mezuliz.pdf
    • http://springhs1988.com/clients/a/a7/a70db2535ed58991dd9724faf9b165d0/File/defulemuvapalokemagejawu.pdf
    • http://houstontca.org/Content/uploads/files/19843266546.pdf
    • http://murielbellhomes.com/userfiles/files/tipotureboni.pdf
    • https://santevita-bg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14074327143.pdf
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dfdbc843f1---basowevilojugejuvu.pdf
    • http://drkoopman.nl/cmsimages/file/xipox.pdf
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01953a63301b5afddc7b6d7059f3cfd9/totofewofe.pdf
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d42265252---mevevezaxu.pdf
    • http://humboldthighclassof79.com/clients/1/19/19f040aad945c40a0acbd79abd3dc6cb/File/wavosuwiro.pdf
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c01b72e482---75397029586.pdf
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/249c39ccc3201b0b770f5957c40f53de/12926958478.pdf
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/37385380401.pdf
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dc9b216aba3360cf8acef3ac1898136/23675298031.pdf
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb936840f9c---biketolujerojakikogawed.pdf
    • http://effekt-film.de/files/file/31454087591.pdf
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f283a6e8bd6ee74e02734805e0947a68/19236247110.pdf
    • https://tranhdaquyhn.com/uploads/news_file/63122689916.pdf
    • https://dollarplus98.com/images/upload/files/57619325578.pdf
    • http://optykglowacki.pl/obrazki/files/6050089441.pdf
    • http://vssteel1999.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/57315212038.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012d29.bin
6aa714669252e01f8ab32ebea344d6e1f2a8c0c6a6cf4ea5fb2ce1cee65fae24
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D29 18544 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00015c76.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C76 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001748d.bin
936cb0fed832f3a9472d377b6cea2d60302c9df79183fa96c83a9390a4407001
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1748D 10876 bytes