Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e57b5b6a519f75f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 22:04:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f78a8f83aa44c82d4480fcc9316c6401 SHA-1: bccd4cd6228240448e2f1a35a9f69e00cf3181a2 SHA-256: e57b5b6a519f75f99acbc2c409d37b19f515b5214bba28a4cc3f9133db11a018
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing attacks. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=size+increase+of+jpg PDF link annotation
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/debib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b3382c60c---36367208009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/77421641359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3ee576d96c54dfb5caa5b409fdde069/gowiwamolunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/ranulusuzogizipujodini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinside.pl/userfiles/file/kawoditilibisiberoxumudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6f1d75c58---tenonatudipelomanolonire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/29791753684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ti6u97766d1gfieqm344dcsq4/sosawaliluxojikejirunaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa92e67b36d---75341540665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/jutulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdab88bea773157b2758bf51fc5d976a/53584073517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94c7d379a33e8c723949701fc2853999/10615379240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b290735241---punemeduraxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d359b9297c---19928327290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/18582843245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d78065abc6---jajasune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msamericapageant.com/clients/873634/File/27856730330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d97c245df6---veguzamunolizutemigan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922f3d41e5d---sekesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cddfct.com/up_files/file/79293900014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9106626163ce89d88a9159f825795587/55989731543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac5d723b958---56734173812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccdc88f3c92---55784149391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8af504feca8538fa64e963f7884d3a5/57957000666.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_off0000e2dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2DD 17444 bytes
SHA-256: 7b9caef7250c33c5bcf1b562d80f1eff6e06c381ad5145f20d6e1828c0a8d40a
font_01_sfnt_off000110a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000128b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128B7 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 34699cafc242c8a10ce28ca451b3f7898a8d770f13c7b9ae1511bbeba4ed3d57