Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51182beb97885648…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-08-02 06:56:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a112e347e67cdfe14d9a9ba2459606e7 SHA-1: ac662241b0a3c41e5c73c80ab5f271e93f71f25e SHA-256: 51182beb97885648d6f235a194abbecdac25924c83391130c2750aa7b679e39d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple websites, some of which appear to be compromised CMS installations. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9884

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/pufelipunubulefukek.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098e71b3b1e4---38232413203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://red-adlay.com/upload/files/65137241507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c185086c1703d31ac088cb6f1f3658d1/vugemokodisebatibatodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bac1a00322167dfa8f8fadf3be95cd12/rifusodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071090425182---didemotebomifekukefuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/17438430771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1ca189cd0c---9335474929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lee-trading.tw/archive/upload/files/jurale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086dd68e3996---91756239568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074471ece13a---6302991128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607946ce9a0e1---67320990356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f95e9d4b25---tomukamezunikevexinidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.com/contents//files/42462772801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gertiesbloomers.com/kousumi/nulook/upload/fckimages/file/virekuwakutis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9782f2505---30776528685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/36207770905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/mewitudaxezesubukoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a0e6f1b919---bafigesarefivuxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb5c1ba7c41---lukemarotor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc7907524348acbb951a7f0f14aa3cf1/wagawuvarobavatategur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102f1becb220---90458711102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/tuxiduziramojaret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dfc7e093d3---66936765664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leposeur.fr/site/upload/ckfinder/files/69040341637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=mad+drift+mod+apk+download+with+unlimited+moneyPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97a8d26bbade8105afdc59aa976b801d/77524806956.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_off0000f77e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF77E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010f90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F90 17692 bytes
SHA-256: 74ba62a560bef65c4646d1a887d2f2f7505344047840d3e8dbb9a8e6214ebef5
font_02_sfnt_off00013e41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E41 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 1fbc4c204a1a259b5c227b25747a96a08d46ecf97e55bc662f37c0d9c06e5383