Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e57c49c990697f43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 06:51:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6fb35cb57b6c3b75c61c5c12428b18fe SHA-1: 2f09e2e045f8a2efaff557b6b4990d3e75dafbd7 SHA-256: e57c49c990697f43ab006891d9d4006ebe29b252a70e0f88c5681e476c22ddc9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple external links, including one pointing to a compromised WordPress upload storage, and is flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristic firings indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+secret+of+the+golden+flower+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.fan-consultants.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26607275055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/2351633956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macabrey-luthier.fr/data/Files/papofozasopevipovanifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://855solution.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/11897254935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaisomboonautopart.com/userfiles/files/vuzupilofumilebirunewefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jecoexports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70533566072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art4you.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/suniwuvoduniduzib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatdangcap.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/36377283920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/89693041515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huzatfokozo.hu/editor_up/82695263740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharedsynergy.com/userfiles/file/22836192013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trisyscom.com/userfiles/file/52607362021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/87115181073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e73c3cd29---33993222648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4i76ar9aba1bs5csujqdl18nbh/85775564100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xy-interior.com/uploads/files/202109122053378012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130d6dbed9a5---44566825449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivescuolaguida.it/userfiles/files/sopafitebefazunum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/bofugizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skontrolsengineering.com/file_media/file_image/file/19746473115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://billionbosses.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8606385427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hebammenglueck.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32178477566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceleevideos.org/images/file/48588165355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satybharat.com/ci/userfiles/files/monimop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellina.pl/userfiles/file/60349669223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.my/images/users/00000000/files/wozejejugidor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.douggoodkin.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bofirovife.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_off0000d14d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD14D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e964.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE964 10692 bytes
SHA-256: d7a89ed042e5b08c0a39bc9307ce051cb6d8c72a4cffc683266239e5aea50a54
font_02_sfnt_off000101bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101BB 18064 bytes
SHA-256: c1d65e3a7af4b5850839045ab7cccf4a2315008ae4150d2d572488ff54ae7d26