Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 051eb6e5dfc45cec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-06-12 01:13:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: dcc9bbb2d9722e8d96d72360812217f7 SHA-1: 367b4bea9ec3803f6fb5c49a0776ebe3be9e01e3 SHA-256: 051eb6e5dfc45cecc9f0e411c4e641fc139197275bf880e1f5329cdfee66d1b8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Palo alto firewall manual', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking embedded links. The numerous extracted URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, point to a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=palo+alto+firewall+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4a445fb10d96207a4cd62bafa244552/90789505545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23dafd649d---pafuvebun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/wiwikatoperomuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/balezawezij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774712f283c---63043385393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecogestval.com/userfiles/file/simovozuruxunogivepobew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e57346998---91027437501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715207e3056---10964849211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/75359450805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sb0igk1eocdl6dtfufb009pbcs/15820006551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad675fb996a---bepakupilofokezuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4tvorcogj4aqftq1f4mboq5f17/gabuzanibun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f0f2c1b29d---53259391069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7dc64693e9---90867800298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/punirukadokoguraja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dac8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAC8 4828 bytes
SHA-256: 39c50682868de6886518ad270dc9a0aa03d94286fbc92cf9a9d38aa2e440504e
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB33 11728 bytes
SHA-256: a8014c4c7de309675fb7d9ba9a69aa1cd75233590d759c1e16c8a70ebd0af343