Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 851a4795c0c0acd1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.5 KB Created: 2021-07-08 07:13:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f1b313a21c4580386ab0477070760993 SHA-1: a917e9fdad83f548c84dfc6ed9098c702ea9cba3 SHA-256: 851a4795c0c0acd1fd59165115ae783628ab29ade0f820f373145cbf0ef726b7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. Heuristics suggest these links are part of a phishing or malicious content distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609811694e7b9---nugofeditap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/mivolemenaremoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/vuzujanumolapozupum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c26e065f9c60ff9b6710d2c6ffe0d524/27718713303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c7cf091a6---66503807325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160913aed26d51---zemekolavufulozufagonutag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3ef752f70a---mupikafubufefupitun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5412ac14c5---81221765978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/crkbsn5b0lo7shof2qc43gogqr/nefevuxefekatavanitepila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a8d7f1254f889f2b0377d295467fda0/30741648172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3420b2c03dde9db9f188d87e576fb479/sifojibofinuxukikidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elfuklid.cz/foto/Image/file/87627867149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cff209e8cb---16211220819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kutyasturak.hu/images/files/38030556455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51e436ec5bad0e53c981040dff5423c3/1478364460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/22969260450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8c92d44ff---tagubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6802ce4d0467b2b2e9d8779a5b11c11/16663467788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://judge1960reunion.com/clients/873273/File/63954678365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0060f5587568e3a38f039c3f538acd04/modinovigowikepotukokom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a9350cde5ac13c105de04cdda99f6f4/safadorosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5637219f981a069ed79af83e17513310/zuxederojenafewagalegafor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607034b99de2a---potada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=acetylcholine+is+to+memory+as+serotonin+is+toPDF 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_off00012de8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DE8 17884 bytes
SHA-256: 29404adc8cc3e09296d61ffd22297478e7abbf902eddbee9b8ca4e93520639d6
font_01_sfnt_off00015c85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C85 10592 bytes
SHA-256: bc7e5d78d8d737e630b4ff3c58b14e0596739594d91271bdfcd31baa8954b2a0
font_02_sfnt_off00017492.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17492 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1