Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51dac273c8f548cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-10 00:33:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6e4898a45a2872b9fd416a7452f3f7b8 SHA-1: 42696e23745e9f5c9ba1edc0eef70473860dd3f5 SHA-256: 51dac273c8f548cf54160c7560126e2fd0ab879a6b7119737d65cd5546e01263
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious redirection tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://fields-on-earth.com/images/blog/file/kijavavigerufuzuvod.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dxline.eu/userfiles/file/30553506578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hbfilm.ca/resimler/files/61070767941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakyaaerospacedefence.com/userfiles/file/rebopetafuzovuduvize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhdjt.com/images/upload/File/loxogen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132c3b48ab9d---48289084974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://himalayakebab.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/lubisezamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dm9fbji79bl8876osljjfqrfa1/dizanorupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://websurin.net/UserFiles/File/81404747561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e31153538269c36629868077984ec372/ziniludavifakuvomiwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filipdegreef.be/uploads/files/muwipugogevelugekusupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baltyk.recykling-rejs.pl/imgturysta/files/sibekif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shopexpert.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/50274274782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsk-nalogov.net/upload/files/jawamonipubiwofutoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbelleepoque.bg/userfiles/file/75332318315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etyekilovarda.hu/userfiles/file/pisijupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://johanbjerke.se/userfiles/file/jusugov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://area100impianti.it/userfiles/files/dusina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imobilestore.de/userfiles/file/40142373891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://culturasiapamplona.com/guiarte_userfiles/files/9609870399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketingnews.fr/images/file/91057118285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613491a4c04e7---vofajemolipokojomemovapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://website-design-company.in/dev3/damodar/ckfinder/core/connector/php/userfiles/files/rilaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casavacanzesanvito.eu/userfiles/files/57660927772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=the+walking+dead+season+10+episode+7+watch+online+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_off0000d0b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8C2 17104 bytes
SHA-256: 5d5663a8535e12122222a206261862e72a02ecdd108f6f329595215285c84f80
font_02_sfnt_off0001154f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1154F 11264 bytes
SHA-256: dd74720e758cdd65265e1969d8ca4982c42ca6b1ce4dd3891fece24aba27a0a9