Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e51f8b33ce501de9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 20:31:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6afc4a868950448a2de3453d9f69f131 SHA-1: 07530c2dda9499b94d1fab45e0951b94f397eb26 SHA-256: e51f8b33ce501de94046f094a6839d69d4f24366004599b7fb4db479f736732e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=7+hum+awards+full+show PDF link annotation
    • http://rickgrisolia.com/userfiles/files/67229421463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161366afc3fb58---fisowagetudeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holland-ex.com/images/blog/file/95696139071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://om-ar.com/userfiles/file/54486571565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fc9b9ca6f485a0f49e6d4981e81165c/11368886032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oticonshop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dulifanetilepedamuboji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.armstrongre.com/files/files/menizewufifakodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyclad.org/UserFiles/file/98805603884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcdpdbatlre3l2lucs70bm2fff/68935459915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autopsrus.aerovents.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nakodarimikigutinutugulen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amata.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nakixemewopulofag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restaurant-lyons.fr/userfiles/file/62950856555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrenickels.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75415317780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sfalojistik.com/userfiles/file/wodukewoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garant-fond.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/Images/files/94643790070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vantainoidia.vn/ci/userfiles/files/92792172479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orangcar.com/app/webroot/upload/files/6828104093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/80207331491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tweedehandswikkelaar.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/nogoseduden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/vejotipus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.s-prom.si/fileupload/file/rupivududadepebavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yishiweb.com/upfiles/files/20210908_110647.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_off0000b61b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB61B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE32 10332 bytes
SHA-256: 45e3a2e6ee11ff299c68d6b2aeb4b55e87f25bb2ae5c5c92079211afd169280f
font_02_sfnt_off0000e589.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE589 16808 bytes
SHA-256: 826741bcf623ce656b59e97f50de33bebd07325c1a8f6b151e2c4e9dc817348d