Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f57ac0ea8ddf949e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 09:45:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 327685a187398a2453dfa9e82925768c SHA-1: 02c3877726b9f83bf98eb67c695b34c310c11903 SHA-256: f57ac0ea8ddf949e1f746d0b046376d8b4a781d367c8c8552d83952aa03dbca0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, directing users to potentially malicious PDF files. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an intent to redirect users to phishing or malware delivery sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072dd29f1842---88235288903.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021062520293029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derechosenred.org/aym_image/files/25053568952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccd554632c---fapedibudumiwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ej92n57228d1bn48pbqv9ljpc4/lelil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774d68e7786---mexadapufokumem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/6577943892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swagath.co/new/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jagukofunipusenuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://memoservicesrl.it/file/detazanamemoxise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raegcafe.com/uploads/files/pekide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soskuwait.com/outscapes/admin/ckeditor/uploads/ck/files/wipofidetiwojex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161150ecaea0a9---gafik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://md-bud.pl/szklo/photos/file/29923063051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/32290398854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/14282807372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100d7c12e769---dabodagafusotazalepijadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3a55131afb229052a5e859e39c6059a/27554589352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fibaquitaine.fr/cebatrama/userfiles/files/nomubajirifajezetapino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f014d04a24---54313796413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/fufipasok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/23895338263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3c799c6a00---gobubele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095bff3e414e---60959175147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taechoclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210602_8AF5D33D0F1CBFE1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=phonic+sound+worksheetPDF 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_off0000bd54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d566.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD566 16796 bytes
SHA-256: dbc23b8d69774e34e9687c1d66755521cdeb141080730cb98c3f6939daa2c048
font_02_sfnt_off0001007b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1007B 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 6b285a7f82710aa9c3d88a5a4efdc8b11e03de66efab38f593c3da88377584a2