Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 51fd94800c246242…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-18 00:43:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d6bc10e09cab12eb934dcb502d7b2c92 SHA-1: 21ea6c009513f516d2ce278273fc50b6b5e88821 SHA-256: 51fd94800c24624235e79cec1fa2778c8f8a6d43f01cbc738e1acdc302d5e93d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of redirection, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19bc4ba606d3fb1c966da033ef6f327b/18794063456.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b350dc2aaf---19735764130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56h1v506675dn63d4tthj3f0e4/podixivifikamoluvonufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubsahdianagalati.ro/upload/editor/file/valivipom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/71022350814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapa-technika.cz/UserFiles/File/lipusaxisejatexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bef2b9ef10e---fegakado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c955760918---ruxikegobejimezawij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b508f133751---togafebuzodikitibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccm3bqt1qkiuvgfuhtg6jaire7/lojisofobanubovezuxupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0140a7bfc3b8a52be20167c672cab85a/69237180897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/39495574483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0b79b3ab5---xufeviwetufodopasijurezup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmatik.com/uploads/file/lafapufosakuzekeresaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cisseo.net/userfiles/files/45935071682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7tec.ru/userfiles/files/rupodamelotaxizorubuwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajansnigde.com/resimler/files/20885114684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c970a1d677---5958172312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097284406ca5---91175173809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ldbm7cg7jtgr1ivhj1pllv7au3/61488429726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3f270a7493---99333269181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17927611758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876fd0ee645---wepurixuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hacoauto.vn/upload/files/74730903333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r80lrg82ssg7n2n8bd0cntv09g/disobanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=god+forgives+our+sins+past+present+and+future+versePDF 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_off0000ed29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED29 16780 bytes
SHA-256: 1fdb15637c2b5cb4789a7e1a9efd53f6ddcdecb8ff9b55b0aa2078e2fd12c47b
font_01_sfnt_off000118d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118D8 10832 bytes
SHA-256: d7aa97851c3da40f874835a62669462ac712bca335120478ce769cd27e4996c1
font_02_sfnt_off000131d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1