Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e51cf793450f0292…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 05:36:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b59004e7c6c74ced0ebd00473ced6acc SHA-1: 27d6bc3c1584cf72e35df98b4a236d89e797a9bc SHA-256: e51cf793450f029231766bc447dab3dcb5ba902a7e94c3856c4cda97836d0d5b
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple unknown URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway scanning. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://icsbc.ru/fuploader/file/mafijeravivifibeb.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://szolnokepul.hu/userfiles/file/zilaparojorusaporu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3t-t.com/User_File/UpFile/file/20210917054756_eml2ZWRhYnVqZQ==.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alanaf.ru/userfiles/files/xubemaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotelbg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/11969619136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalthailand.com/images/uploads/ckfinder/files/62969885997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmtshipping.com/attachment/file/zafip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/754293851613027a315bfd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://100gastro.cz/soubory/files/zugipudemisuxibusopekope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhousemethod.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51035589063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140efca0d6b0---dewasapevatunolugud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/41146532283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d92d64a02efa0e389d89d10bd3e0a35a/65161317443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132f38d6ac88---luweginunalepoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.org/contents/files/82864024896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natyabio.com/uploadfiles/pawugakuzalefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pro-biomed.com/admin/userfiles/file/87271113938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsstore.mx/ckeditor/ckfinder/archivossubidos/files/bovoxiwugegazog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceiling.holcom.vn/webroot/img/files/kugikijakizugibux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/desenarivarivufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estduquebec.com/scripts/php/xenocode/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xonaluwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613abb7865413---xokewujopulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salocchi.it/userfiles/files/31723696624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviteksural.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60099233556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gedayapi.com/userfiles/file/datakunezujakoviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=new+super+mario+bros+2+decrypted+romPDF 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_off0000c88e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC88E 18288 bytes
SHA-256: 1558a051247cf83bddcbe8229a29496578489c7aa56577c8c3694dbad76c2d59
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000110b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110B8 11060 bytes
SHA-256: fa9f69995ccb30cb779c6ecca12c9b3d33aa973d436c3d9dfadc3b062ad27130