Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51616a9b3dd60967…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-07-29 13:04:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 23863408d53c396691c9f357ddcc3160 SHA-1: efb5cef64e680998196c632f070e63954a523ce3 SHA-256: 51616a9b3dd60967e53b1e4f3c51459a469d1ef87c5cc7ab003e90ab009ca951
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a strong intent to direct users to potentially harmful external resources.

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=partitura+titanic+con+notas PDF link annotation
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/87683448059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5d0792441---67585839114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940d3d36573---44357350004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8ord8tihuqnmsgdr4aqiqfv25/sawawovulusagazugaromu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a418b7b4afb---71637049400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083384ba2296---widadupuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamuiboe.com/webroot/upload_media/kunilamunufakegomibulesij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761ec8bf49f---48651141996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98u7ua2bf75k0hls8k7t5mdf91/47649055781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119hero.kr/userData/board/file/tubimevojoravogumux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariagussago.com/userfiles/files/ragiditises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamotato.ro/userfiles/file/divedek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc791d57c76---12210484728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51gqej10ltfudoh10coutg2n0q/winejususebifop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pianotuningdarwin.com/userfiles/files/zelipowitibabot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-freight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mojilozedusazazewis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/95101354184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc34b3a6d7---nujutezuzikupejuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b764e4132048032a8af5ae071fa76a29/74738925423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074830da761a---92032563662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digiconelectronics.com/media/sigixedonowim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdbau-rauch.at/98610261810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3tgkcpuhvei31d99mf94db7qv7/82099687958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3efedebb03---vovimereserilalakurikab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d398a88245---66582802962.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_off0000cbf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBF1 10148 bytes
SHA-256: 9cbd456b684d59f9dca340ec1ec42931ab78463c6e17d4a50bcf4101869e2c72
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2BD 18368 bytes
SHA-256: a63cfba37589eb8d7b34afc9814f7253d30a955f63805ebc099cce26bfeb2845
font_02_sfnt_off0001112c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1112C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1