Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51e7cb5b23037b84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-07-30 06:43:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1dd0f6ff9587ffdbaf95626158559d06 SHA-1: aef65efb97c3252533892f6e2dffe4a83aba9cb9 SHA-256: 51e7cb5b23037b849422d870e05a360b67f5e85fe52a3e05c2398454c5b494ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or credential harvesting campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=iprog+user+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://korytnica.net/data/files/82744254423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607151927b662---31457969504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed65178252---genepizidalebixisewijod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/xogabifusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64dp6eno5452mip7o2n086ivhl/50832835723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093adace6a41---89585195560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c44c7aff295c40b5c8f3f1ad6d4d5eba/96009627456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608315b33a285---rakavonamixibuwuwuzeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e81a0787d58cb2b5e3ca0ff4b6fc684/13311288992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veterinarycarefoundation.org/userfiles/file/81484229619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b70fd88e9a108184a5e55c729b2d1c3/gudivexomexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ccc6170e5f---detedikuwogusetebif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/sijebejinisavarebijizuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpn1971.org/clients/a/a2/a25689677492d603657f1241a2a69ea8/File/69753007606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karimeh.com/public/userfiles/file/xisaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5981675c81---tozezuxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolepintozzi.it/userfiles/files/tamapogenenimitafabesuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t28m3r28070ebd7d92u88a3d1f/89306705604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/79786600321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carolstoecker.com/clients/c/c6/c60e280709801842a26e47e23f21f170/File/65816673459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719299ac42d---24382802404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef97900fb6---33565010717.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_off00010200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10200 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A17 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 40e823ec774d49b6221ba93c9a474fe6a1b64967937a69d7287fcac582d24478
font_02_sfnt_off0001326d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1326D 17928 bytes
SHA-256: 44a6edfb87fbb5fe7f21372d4c4b4d25fddca2100fd909457683387a74e46e14