Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51717cdbf6ac02ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 19:05:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ec99d48374da7253e0d2495f04ccf804 SHA-1: e6cc85e6211d0e1e760b03473503fa74577df113 SHA-256: 51717cdbf6ac02ca6e2f44a316521ac6c3a08da87bc9f3941d2df47b422cdf74
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of 'utm_term=bester+pdf+reader+android+tablet' in one URL indicates a potential lure for users seeking PDF readers.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56b6c5247b88027a67af41f6a7160248/69759360168.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://egyseg.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuwadonidasarazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/bipemonesolujoratofexax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/lodolofotumaxobib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/19305698389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c2bfd8d0defbd76ac6f5bdd982d07e4/komovogaxevuwavagow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vabow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/chljk2fou142gstdo0s45n9gk7/kigifekanim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-021.com/userfiles/file/20210626080919_6rbo8j.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wu-pao.com/upfiles/editor/files/rutef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7721ff855f65dd0faacc7e43c5bc6a74/77672821372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba9220bfcaa---gubufuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c20d4fe0c69---vidiloro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/fodezinaroninad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44ad565bd6a59b7acf34f45f213bb031/99736365461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a16909ea189---fomemumaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c80eae6d87f4a453d0fa063341c54a69/96876310115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hetodon.com/fckeditorfiles/file/sinofojitil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/84748611922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/711f7e2a082add27aef574fdd4cb1fbc/81317851609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bmdimolsv5caet954rm9r599r6/85985052478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc31c23d1a---dibedapiwilenijuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleshashop.net/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/ganudipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=bester+pdf+reader+android+tabletPDF 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_off0000ede8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105FF 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 28458c8c3f52e42b2dbee1beb380402bede4c2e57b7f8669987858aa879a9f78
font_02_sfnt_off00011e5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E5B 18556 bytes
SHA-256: e6db6b5f9c040de7a6da8b7d9d7bb6970327060651eb97e0d362b90212d62487