Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f51e12ab28c1c41b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:29:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1b8bd4934703f2c504e4b93eec7d4a52 SHA-1: 9c5cadba617a6b1b1946502296b91e264b4f1c2e SHA-256: f51e12ab28c1c41b29a1316a6495bca92a5bc60e9666d443488515ba7205dcca
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to host malicious content. The presence of a download button lure further supports the phishing and malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://chinajnbt.com/images/upload/File/terupimunufewopenebaxuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/68217992486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/reksnajemug0lkfb45e0j7hkq6/16273963557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/171a3b4004935a7daecbf49755e2d9fb/10860849535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcurryproperties.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/59573646080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartamentosalbatros.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfa0977c90d---25144875886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c27fd688973---10025312292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fqb71153b1l5pvkg8fo7fa6gq3/82088479335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medpressa.ru/files/file/64299820221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l916osgd7fkmngabuj3ecvvio2/48625173162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730b06ebc20---wepexisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e09045eff---9856125485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/18481486108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovistar-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruvanutemalebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/21018640658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vendsol.com/userfiles/file/20577253252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aspbae.org/userfiles/file/72169209448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210521010913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b797e3fbe3d8b2b44d988ab300625203/39420734506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinasoftcore.com/userfiles/file///6064662079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/jenabobin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609404a81ade4---57943164218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://himalayakebab.irafbrothers.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/97788303877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+convert+pdf+to+word+foxitPDF link annotation
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/69825313061.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_off0000d047.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD047 17152 bytes
SHA-256: aa2e433be774b97641d551270db0b6a5d5805d151aabbe7bc16e927b1150c1a8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCC2 10484 bytes
SHA-256: b652ddd20102e85cbe2a76617fc00cec15a30547ba583f64a03fc9792f342a8b
font_02_sfnt_off000114b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1