Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51cb576db0294564…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-07-05 21:25:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ebe3087422f00697fdcb2e3d40da3513 SHA-1: 9d417af6cef9513464314dac8a1f6fdb00441e1f SHA-256: 51cb576db02945648d26f79f5c7e78da696b98801a80de66eef7b2f9972c3eeb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a malicious document intended to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9941

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://candientuvibra.com/images/file/53297129963.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://honda-vo.com/upload/file/39681676863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/bexeguzefuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibkoe43taes7i05da57kspudka/85325326915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e51a634357---daxafaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/vofuzobovakepowedesotupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d4d7752f32c73165aec332bd741b25e/sudobezenem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094abb924294---71384258312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728419950ce---tipodopironiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a578037d00e---zivebijajebum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a108c5904fb---46492087664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e01820b0bc7---wadaxukuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b45ab7e9ed3b9a79317d0e1e1adad9d/70474286367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ureqk2e7bhb24r130e6m34fe54/86395402903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleshuzataruhaz.hu/files/file/sibukifola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/kepovupafojisaxujiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6cd0660efad0f7deca4340ba6548a27/79286884428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607099dc642c9---55179193066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://catherine-massage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/debapanofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9vjnr0omgelgks290o6mfb4if2/sodirepuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/835431540b334c9e212b213ed4835d30/xetewibobafofetafatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15b1ab5da6cebacef3c72c07897d2b5f/nevajuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=codes+for+idle+heroes+2020+decemberPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD3 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
font_01_sfnt_off00010119.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10119 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 397cc881ba0287e921a8eb1593179112809cef548d3e3c78d1b17464ede43190
font_02_sfnt_off000119e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000131f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131F9 17420 bytes
SHA-256: d676451b4f6c61fcd7071eb5fac7e5357902e1aed8a52491c3bb34e25ac45cb3