Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f51071e5ec4ee850…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-08-25 05:15:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3d677cd21d50abbd3647e68761e59725 SHA-1: ce7b22ba7ae79ecc9cb0add4be45c908566ca05f SHA-256: f51071e5ec4ee850eec1877207cc025fcaf4d096efe6425e6f5ed4d127ca67d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=least+count+of+michelson+interferometer PDF link annotation
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c954c1377d---ridomuzuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a075beab8cc---rulodasufafumigakovulutux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/miludegimuvemeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/kopafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b733fe7ad93---kigezazebof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fruolqnh18pd0luemlc347mcij/49997998119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arlingtonhigh1959.com/clients/863184/File/wavomuwabijapebuwodokuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d29532de8d---guwokavererusonuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/dotejosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pics4us.de/userfiles/file/5015943888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8d3afa52f11195856989115af6c69ae/89120368382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av-jet.ru/userfiles/file/tabozimejaniwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ekod6ji9j2su2gfh3b0jmgmefp/vowoxasugaruno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evaemlak.com/userfiles/file///37877147088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artpolyclinic.com/file/files/59852860399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8dc8eea83e---25935004140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080533e6076b---fifegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/41331990390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7795fdf84a---116622910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f94003a68---vujexetapefisopokopar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8ba31b464f---lariwisawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/litabukako.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_off0000be79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE79 15272 bytes
SHA-256: c88c6c4be6e72330aa532cd38ec872fcd872e358090eb36dd6f4a148c2011261
font_01_sfnt_off0000e588.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE588 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 583010fc3b6a4cf9e2d6657eb1df416f59d2562813b8bf06a2efe770771c21f9
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDB4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1