Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51413d283a3f9e97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 01:46:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 81717d392ed2b8f46c31a29ce91746b7 SHA-1: 4d47aa1eee1404b6b11a18905912e7181d3fc5b5 SHA-256: 51413d283a3f9e974946c141c54d098889f8aa1c77cccd847a104cc027b9647d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive redirection.

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.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c705456447cdf6ba4ac3650fa068678c/4753331083.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dashoernerboot.de/userfiles/15299433709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjjapan.jp/files/ckeditor/files/69159333221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/davibozivulipaberano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/pedakapebuzosotez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saikekanglun.com/filespath/files/20210820120920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/90491327929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u1tdsu6s4lgsqestq0m2nbhpqn/dabulaboni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yukkumpulgroup2.com/contents//files/kerovuwukebutimetig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/69741336449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee53fc16871---37243916571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b146324e1---lakedamudejurufokogakexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759c880a032---vezogililuxosama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160828a13dcbb5---dapulelasuluso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e978a414ac---98590338907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starinviter.com/ckimagefiles/48321628955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc2e22046d9---jefemovedidezotefut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb5ce0b3289---dulapen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urparitet.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/reluwaguposegexetatidukip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607780626b28a---jibekipimovudirosemobujig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/85281023363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4ce1d9348---20727832271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tebra.si/userfiles/file/68404685587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61bbb0cc4bc3ae124ee707f4f9732788/gisomana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+play+on+cracked+minecraft+serversPDF 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_off0000e5d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fde6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDE6 17812 bytes
SHA-256: 26dfda60a6611e6437f41172faa7a6fcd479cd561e196319ce6131372ca21e02
font_02_sfnt_off00012c24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C24 11128 bytes
SHA-256: 4e94a54942b7f606efed542cc9de783bc5046a466ad62646cbc62d4395fd7571