Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51159b46498ba236…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 06:05:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4890dfa72fd1485e5f7d80ef9eea74a2 SHA-1: 231dbc9f32468469ea496daf6db121128adbeab2 SHA-256: 51159b46498ba23626454612129f74ae07fc09517002ba630edf661c6e60f9ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=glencoe+geometry+practice+workbook+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/punirefajupigaridorexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/potojigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1319764b58cfc4d9baf2a70f62771159/98768385072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodline.by/userfiles/file/75771253933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/31299095321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/fasajagolijajaridetibidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb359f00ee---fedevalebujabefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jacsonsfurniture.com/userfiles/file/51354068826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03rdboav06sfvv335pm879q9vg/68356984522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobiliteit.nu/files/gupelokerasob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwr-tech.ru/userfiles/file/81568491181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajanav.com/aym_image/files/dotomuvaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.smwiarus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70054643706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a78098b3693---59956592538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef7b33d1e92273cda53efd45e7660c95/gujidivosimitepopedaxija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cd4ebdd6d7---radirupatobupujowurezewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e64b9e71d574be2a67c45d61919cb026/36737451439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63ce9239f8---27092493163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/10327504870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yalcinsezer.com/upload/ckfinder/files/13099643418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bb542356c5d7b3fdc01fa342f56499d/gogemovozuvuledu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waetsukai.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39285467717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oxi-dental.ro/imagini_ws/fadoziditipub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8e51d02e48---tekuvimefevatu.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_off0000b806.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB806 16604 bytes
SHA-256: 2edc66b127ed4aabbac37a87b07d1022fd3f28da35beff1f821bbf5b69c7bdb0
font_01_sfnt_off0000e342.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE342 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB59 11264 bytes
SHA-256: 1a2a86669e0f58189ac47078d227eaceb7e6e4e28d256953e196c42139313f66