Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c51458821663bad6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.0 KB Created: 2021-06-23 00:37:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 77ec9e9b0f243e80108155efe08bbf2b SHA-1: fab29ce4fcaa88b6653d6c5964ffbbf4633db780 SHA-256: c51458821663bad6a1d656469ac87cd84effc723b642195e75a8d487a75a00ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=security+rules+and+procedures+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726e23bea3d---mezaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072827551c30---pemikazise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad925abd121---ranofojuxitarixegusizebid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd852803fdf63c40ec8673aff77c50d4/72707232684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6jhsap2c8f8gce39gplr9qral2/lawawosubibuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://come2menorca.com/images/file/zevabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c147f615351---5110213347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160892eb813a8b---50965814503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infoenergie-loire.org/userfiles/file/vodezanukupakavepul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce271977e1---45255342326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/72154667070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lso-msm.fr/userfiles/file/80400800035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h6sfnf6ap2aibtct8b4foa591j/15552777225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25c110a3f7---guloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astro2sphere.com/admin/images/file/10129961372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/sutepovipirejozoxaxetebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00017c51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17C51 5424 bytes
SHA-256: 54f31e9ac422f19b4c46bb416362195b014d8ab014b316f281275c20687953df
font_01_sfnt_off00018eb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18EB8 11660 bytes
SHA-256: d04fc6eff809db8d2897b74dd5d3437ade789c3241dbecbf9cbb9d0350ddb0c3