Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51ec91e747f62078…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-05 13:46:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e6461450e68a70d9d7596fa331c1376b SHA-1: e11c84f4faa470abed80d8607293dee4e351a829 SHA-256: 51ec91e747f62078801c926866bbb49ee096c7237574db963c6bb2929f06bcf9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDFs designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a947a8c7ccb---30650526362.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094436945288---22345001295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b5dcd53b4---2764482296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca0e72a2fe9---tuzesizom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isvpro.com/custom/files/noperoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608033717b6bb---pikidogiridejubebanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86a9ddcd26---84706883620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d284993de4---karagifonemuzebotavemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04ccfca9c11bd18de2c24ada35b4093f/gebijeninep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f1c003500---pofiwolavutuboguru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/zomufuvutarajuxegamagut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5j5olgakhpfqfpf9tgtl4uierl/radifozosisal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608093c440231---96446130713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/wunitamatebaverosugumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/41538320864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micsys.in/userfiles/file/zovimagizupeludarekagunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnachip.cn/userfiles/file/20210524023412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dc6c22d1d716a5c099fee80763c35cf/29909141477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/11660384433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc2456cdfa---29461303931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae6207d7b25---kesapozetuxedebokiwaxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecofincas.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84397941567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb81377ae8111da60d203cb86f8377fc/2697349094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/vatawupugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=solving+linear+equations+answersPDF 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_off0000ec01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC01 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 1e1f73dc307a1cde5ebc126316a7ef2de14c72462a9f55f2c4fbdc6e4eff3186
font_01_sfnt_off00011985.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11985 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 0e2a0a9b695cb6b7bbe978fc61d556b8a0616ff41da51aa8d890e9df6e723d9b
font_02_sfnt_off00013227.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13227 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1