Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51982a0ba4c231f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:58:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7f1819cebe3f8743494a07fc34b5493d SHA-1: f20dff1c3544ed9dbd6acc67b280cd7fa425083b SHA-256: 51982a0ba4c231f3a8d2a8c5d5ea929bac7abd0c26911261c2a412de0e29cac8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent.

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://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6b0eee3287cc6b9966de8af1197bbdb/80562128164.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071dea7e38eb---71645726677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhomeshaiphong.net/app/webroot/img/files/nilumoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mt-filtration.com/uploaded/file/40503405460dde802bb70b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5pfveukl1059ongl27q5vc6thi/nobevubedisami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/59171921727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f954f00b632e5f1436a9d7e929bebae/lofidogewatiwefijoxexopun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f92cd99e33edcdb74e6975f3a07e1b7/suvisamiwagixopovuzesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/xepurasulenopovefazajif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609347bac9858---jidozedorozosidevedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trineckevzdelavani.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jowop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53s4snje41mmn22lru6r3q03h0/ganukale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a70c2a69879f1e8d870db40f77c3dd7/fapakazubusolanuwanoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/382f7a6d7bf5ec3b5f7eb5831c18b092/13570160747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hawkseyetravels.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73462075450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motocams.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kefidativumifejaxaloxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pindimana.in/uploads/file/kasufasederavonakuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/gimenimezixebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aescantabria.es/upload/fckeditor/file///nuwagapoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6115e371d9---zumuwajumudipijamute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a791c0b6deb---66009951226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3820420f086e0a1aa9e039a4f7adf3de/denokanabinunuwigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=antony+and+cleopatra+pdf+freePDF 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_off0000d0b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8CC 10448 bytes
SHA-256: ccceed18523e55edfdf0b24bf2bb5adab8596eb07834c5fb3d2de6c7d2afc3fa
font_02_sfnt_off000100ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100AD 16840 bytes
SHA-256: dcd0f3f61d26913e6b28189b159b7dfbb4572300abf063406dbe0d87fea0c2ef