Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51040de3440d2611…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 01:48:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 90af6b6f18b9e6950d2f0c1bd200f21c SHA-1: 8bc7e99c258f29cdcd6ec9bb0b592e41b26b270c SHA-256: 51040de3440d2611918c34504b5f0007d7478964c65dcb9923db23f1dd0a8e9a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a pattern of directing users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=importance+of+renewable+energy+resources PDF link annotation
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/krnnbcapocqrskee8ovd8imol2/lizagomuvaxugabubenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/51140752672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobardinisrl.com/userfiles/files/83561059811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608831ca2f1cb---97444570550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//55208891576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bff70ddae703a39a5d9d0aacb51338e/raxoxozokosotepuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b51b6ce66afc0b2f5d7ba17365f0108/42283145355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmobilewebsite.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6645fbe8a07e8686a94ff25e31de71f/37188471675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/10019510155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vishalahospitality.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49278566491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.lv/pictures/image/84033608228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c26571f0888---29651888499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f28545e4c23cded537c9cb34ded12012/97310833429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a784ffbed43---86916646491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1836ed50d7---12586717471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientaytourist.com/uploads/files/lasezidopebegumufifafiror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/43548466331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/301cb4cd3ac4d5e8591259b296740292/47582020003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/3092143834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160912dbae892a---wepixuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b637deacbc3---68281849693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bkeiolpvb9e7995um5dajeme3/78472278448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/62866320264.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_off0000f7d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7D9 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 85bf21134f787daa5c1bcaa274338caee86466472c3aea6d484bc4f110bf999d
font_01_sfnt_off000111af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000129c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129C1 17664 bytes
SHA-256: a2e2be6113cdb445a1c76fa547b288996fd7a63db5c447f7cbb851fcc254f749