Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5151782e0619c6c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 13:28:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 13b5eac93b2b950849b889d9d9e685a7 SHA-1: bc4bd768c35906fe637fd12fa1a6ddcecf776f4c SHA-256: 5151782e0619c6c23e767b4dbb1f69bab129eb482b0f514d902e89905044b337
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised websites and disposable hosting domains. These links likely serve as a lure for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://donaldbermanmaimonidesgolf2020.com/clients/0/0d/0d43fbb8ff91cab41fa1b056c0d912a9/File/zuvewegaberu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c14fc3ce7b---1406297125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/374c60703466df228155b249e69f064b/sogumizemutipufataxere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad0ebdbe03---6199377882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a88c3bd1c---89147532673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baf5709d2cf---badigeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j4t1o8u2ettkqhmpsb71emscaj/72131787176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kirajiwazogarujozig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a21b1960311---63574887689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffff0b9fe7e0635cc8210759a002d8f7/fidewimufikaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d285c1226---20582501963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/rudetikin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c88255becf9---ropalodas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c584dcc31---simowunadidofasopajow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shadesvalleymounties1969.com/clients/868959/File/28721625294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equator-maritime.com/userfiles/file/kinedekarutabatuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9c907733c1---9316349584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c3h9vt0flhc8l2hf27atjdpq5/48774173349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheapneasytrafficschool.com/CheapNEasyTrafficSchool/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/wuberetajuredolexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/nurinovaxutedunikixarebaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2d6efe9cd43688b03365418f6d902b9/melulajivuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7636d0ee74ea30f047660d4ec8d5995d/sitadorovofaxokofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=forms+of+ir+and+serPDF 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_off0000f417.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF417 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C29 16696 bytes
SHA-256: 0027f3e079d507434d86fe3294a972635af86db413e7bb5f313932f5cfd40421
font_02_sfnt_off000137a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137A9 10348 bytes
SHA-256: b392560e318fdd25f6f459aec763f29bbe9da60af1303e4cca20fa4b3690a55a