Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb51557172af7d00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 06:03:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0dce9c23c24c4d5efcc9e7b2a3e64df9 SHA-1: 43cf50bea2a7915360c6fdf9a4622c4f36c0a2e5 SHA-256: fb51557172af7d00f1cae044f053019742c409ba3e5d4527add1849c048ed61b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous unknown URLs strongly supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7nuad3sggn8rig94qdm3a3ukl5/rovekuked.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1607b37cd84f0b---43551673874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/42638737411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/46103991095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8371e85d1f6d0e763cb3ceb4796abf44/52279502206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://improntediteatro.it/userfiles/files/pusubavubixezujenudosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fedico.ca/upload/editor/file/tusimojuvekelabesiwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/in38pdkgnqvk96vtps5a6cieaf/97503214634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/ruxijobagedozola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bmr4j624icfqmpfkphnefmf091/2702326661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/67697654336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/35955057042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inphuduong.vn/upload/files/zizikejagib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2vxr09c6mc.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/6047154416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulceoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/bipese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterjobintl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86698995125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/pirizukope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df77812b85---vutewitur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles//file/84435998806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ediliziaunoaventi.com/userfiles/files/gugubavoperowerewinutusam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beeshark.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/vegawofaluwebesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=examples+of+critical+analysis+of+an+article+pdfPDF 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_off0000b7b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7B0 15412 bytes
SHA-256: 1eb686d1e43e735a89e77f8c98a4fd7a397a0f6521ff53405107175bf82a0417
font_01_sfnt_off0000de64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f67b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF67B 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 4d9657a3d6a6b6683654fab9c2c1b1c1affb2abe3d611b2304cefab85e02209b