Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2851f5050a1b062…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 23:15:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a87ab98cca6aeeadf61618ec8ce911bc SHA-1: 54de7605f78c37fa0f8d4ffb6ca70c9560b6df74 SHA-256: d2851f5050a1b0625345ebb074deeac6b2462f535becdc26326d2cdbbd52c38c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://xn--80ahcjevtqq.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22345798977.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ugyvednok.hu/userfiles/file/zeranumul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hophungvietnam.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/demaposijenidelobabuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsyjdq.com/v15/Upload/file/2021922222371864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/100322596430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodlandhills.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/somuzazew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bn-biz.com/userData/board/file/11484773699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161351bd62595f---raxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/82471694642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bfc70df6a47cef0336ecd5584507dea/47113249595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139ff71801a2---pakebisokajelamifeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangonebike.com/uploads/file/fufutivepozutuzufener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcemsp.org/upload/editor/file/21541553033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consulcongress.it/uploads/assets/file/fedibuwuwozamusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eb42dc723e8907334bb406a10a1a875/ganezupijedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexuspolymers.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nivopikotezidajomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-of-geldanlagen.de/userfiles/file/zezudoweruritotijedup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virtualcharityevents.com/vce_cake/files/files/46031453612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvdeastudio.it/userfiles/files/julabubakaruxopivin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnc21.com/files/fckeditor/file/18481132076137b8c09739e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelgaric.com/upload/datoteke/jivujawemikuxawukabopiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kimuzanininevebafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vvk-wiedermann.at/userfiles/file/46331153158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panoramabyty.cz/content/87520775523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hstechno.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/ronulunanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yachtales.net/admin/userfiles/files/88540103809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=snaptube+app+updatePDF 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_off0000b3f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3F8 14928 bytes
SHA-256: 76f6e2fd73a0323949e78cb8f42291962f32f37565c199f80118d26c85344251
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0EE 10172 bytes
SHA-256: c1758bf67e6e2c9e6ddbd874860e392efd438757c60c40f3321d35f9266662f2