Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51cc5d22b9bd48ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 01:47:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b830ac679c5c01e696981d3996afecf8 SHA-1: 129b6575a747f0faf95bdb34547756457a4ff71a SHA-256: 51cc5d22b9bd48ac2d199b657ee786e2422457098ab8c82d56101019ebfdc745
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest a phishing or trojan distribution intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9938

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://ijp2.com/contents/files/30669466265.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hhdq2hus2rt13k6qcfb7ukpg83/90505687761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58a444cf3a389bd16fdeae415e5a8bca/gapunepitanomubebimef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/alua97slcn2g7cmjt4m6neb080/zoforozave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thaiboat.net/image/upload/File/28855714899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2588784d5---sobozabidejatoderen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime42.ru/userfiles/files/41327300607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69ae7fb45109485de99bfd366bc8e170/21273939237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/87418802478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i5b5kod53gcv55v914frurmv7r/17955712293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoshitorionline.com/uploads/files/vuselumunuleriga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/40960271751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ff3783fbe---91958443784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://design-klasse.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39869170808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pujcovnanaradi-tvarozna.cz/userfiles/files/kasupikutesapevegizuxijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d3e298402---47903891055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ehko6cd6nvqb5a8o6h4so7l1rb/turelifafenugotiwok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/77169542001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skinrepublic.vn/webroot/img/files/jelak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67dfc4b2c72ae3e42e89982daba44d10/tutelujeduberijinize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goforthegreengolfpools.com/userfiles/file/7959309477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gozobiberijitagaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lwim-ouargla.dz/ar/files/zatigoditerenukipoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=minimisation+of+boolean+function+pdfPDF 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_off00011b44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001335b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1335B 10916 bytes
SHA-256: ab928270b38b68be629e586722bf8f4ea961893f7275e879156d1f4f04565b0d
font_02_sfnt_off00014c65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C65 22820 bytes
SHA-256: 0f4f48690d6d6ba11aa8257cdf7ee29d6b8993ca7285663f508e91bc1a841e4c