Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b51330eec6d5163e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:56:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d5f57b846765632df65d625b933dc46b SHA-1: c4f076848bccfb6ac956ca446ae969bbd55986c9 SHA-256: b51330eec6d5163efec85ebb95a592fe1e9f9538e6edb7613127d0e57d8f09c8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the overall structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or scam lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=notre-dame+de+paris+%28roman%29+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://slstudio.it/userfiles/files/63856894191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4284mun7a6t0t672hn8nspdhs5/monuwopoluruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070dad3e5fc4---27165185041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1aade8452c0987d3425bb5b524dcaff/53300139476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e33fe214dd7a91900dcfc181a77ff42/wovulumeguwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.ch/upload/file/geperojizidigogozuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camphacement.vn/upload/files/21148345578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupahatak.pl/admin/_fck_files/file/fefetixowusadit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610315412393c---nigiwawebobirurow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d7d9f06db---xutefozifigaval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yoga-privates.com/yoga-privates/file/tasivarenupetapomaxukube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afp92md209l69dcd11mk42bpso/77103270923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fhuhstk9a09gqs2mtoeeucqol1/merol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nail-free.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17995365451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609625411b6c9---paruramefovegazawemuzas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zima.snowcat.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gofoxexogibis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primethailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nowamop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnogotrop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73858911958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dnsbp.com/all4help/fckuserfiles/file/kurabikav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautydent.hu/editor_up/werevezogawagemozazefafes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ada61c0d0e779c886af100ade7b0c5c6/tapeluxadonizagov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed3aed39c4efc1feb0a4c5115c86e42e/zutilunebesimaravenux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poultech.net/d/files/3949975159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786824cbc05---pazoxoxo.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_off0000de82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE82 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 5900b6461bf0909a739d2d6b9de29e83bf93688e9629346b0b9b32f75afb74ff
font_01_sfnt_off0000f77b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF77B 21788 bytes
SHA-256: a633ec46c12d59354b39f15a48af81eecdac4e19cbfe7cba03fa1311d7fcff6a
font_02_sfnt_off00012cf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CF6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1