Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51a780f3aea9da1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-07-24 21:07:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d9bfe7a98b5a40727e553f593470dbf1 SHA-1: 0ddc68c870626e31235095074171a709a7b579c6 SHA-256: 51a780f3aea9da1ff1ba15c27889643f0d2d0d21681ac187dc105980274472a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The presence of external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://grupposcorcia.it/userfiles/files/61567957482.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ca836ad0c9f9d5daecddc351a28e096/28008170050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dock-levellers.com/upload/files/18628564964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a3be08e7c---xudib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d49ab29e8fb090effa3e192ca651114/82863144962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ever-pioneer.com/upload/files/welekikofan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/85397284383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6aed4021ae---vikogekusorepuvum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rioairporttransfer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pulabifexojozexivudowun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ka4f8n3ubloginh1o15ir9616h/vedegeregizap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d49f1a7f83c02fc8d0697e9392b6903b/gifodufoxaxefaxorafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://craftsmancuttingdies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e441a8c9d8dca1eae2017a44dce9ebe2/21554661433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/27425641092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcs6tia73rb62ha16qn85ce2ff/zofabik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/liminosedixudoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://presstone.hu/userfiles/file/10922487459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbjhockeytournament.com/clients/f/f9/f9ff496842c877cbb4522510b668f2a2/File/80234748260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magooferta.pl/uploads/fck/file/35522382402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lasallelille.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tolakuvilajis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bf97842224984fa83fc66e9d5f10105/siwaxotixono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a175356ea0---liledu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a52c993f6b---mapobelasisudukimaxazeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94de5c747f---vowekijikozojosape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m2ueglal2k8c0fps1643oaf7ss/92345213062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=probability+questions+for+grade+6PDF link annotation
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/75755222994.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_off0000d1c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9DA 16628 bytes
SHA-256: 7cbefa711402f42a224c3cd989547a7b319d8b5929ea93b2b7e478de07a2724d
font_02_sfnt_off000114a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114A0 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 8e201e576bd1e22d96ac5c19a5953ab92dc1e5f85e758eb8474bfe23e94950c1