Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51844fa80fe1a12d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-07-27 13:09:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: ad53d9bebb2103a79ae723e319aab0a6 SHA-1: 733ff2375fb025b1f29a52923c01a2532fd5c1e7 SHA-256: 51844fa80fe1a12d47880b388141d01223be4c16669845beb5ca58fccd5df439
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to external sites via malicious links embedded within the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b232a3cc4---74200285966.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab21d96fdd---78838691590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/jadupalulonarelojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba3aaa3b81---lovef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c89147f2946e44e4b722b62afd9197d3/sewopujowesopabedumetux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownherndon.com/uploads/files/50405556223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancercareresearch.com/userfiles/file/6532581128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog//file/98418414817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/lebimuwaxuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomodorolennep.de/gfx/userfiles/files/bogasusemik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hattoco.vn/images/ckeditor/files/85762668315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/513e1eb08f70757ab7bbc61296b92ddc/sadevobapewax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b31230ac1c945fedbd3b6f2402699ed/birilovenoxipedidiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busanpc1.com/upload/fckeditor/file/goxosetelaluraxamakow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0a957c0f53fbd12789af1f5ad4045b7/sugamevadutani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de72caed266---tiperebetutewidamudose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/91276297682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c19pe1k49g5qfter1tgt30tjr4/gufiwuzonofavinebojisen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avantagesapp.com/uploads/files/86713336125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/toladodirejovezonuneragi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaonhaccong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/noxuxevateketuvobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavcam.com/upload/ckfinder/files/wuzagoluzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609063a80c5ac---72095511144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koetec.com/home/~ptow/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sogebefakeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608829a258c37---42648593947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toanlinh.vn/upload/files/tepibofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=marketing+concepts+and+strategies+7th+edition+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000f4e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E8 16872 bytes
SHA-256: 2a486fe51a440a00c5d48691f3e52adc857498c55116f49cff568f9e7378498f
font_01_sfnt_off000120ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120EC 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 2c41e0c81321b82e2f0710c12fc0f503933dc07d63ce8a076c21d971b2e0a8b8
font_02_sfnt_off00013ac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AC0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1