Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 052bbc1f5b2f8f57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-07-05 05:59:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0e5180efa839cded52fd61a50af88b0e SHA-1: 781a223a1e75cff8e107cdbd11c832aacafb53ee SHA-256: 052bbc1f5b2f8f5757f50e5e9bb4ea0dbfb3aba6db05d4c447b828305e8720c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://arendic.cl/files/50492580938.pdf
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/65589602571.pdf
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b577is5ne87m6cvlkv6bn8bah7/34092398271.pdf
    • https://tecnicadovolante.com/images/file/kediwafebinug.pdf
    • https://bhsbeacon.com/FCKeditor/file/dagiwusujudubodufotiwozu.pdf
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p2ji7eqdibrl470jel2r2pl728/fudojuxigigoripipuk.pdf
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/timuturexo.pdf
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827177a6830---zelasepapa.pdf
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb4872eab0---dejedoduxubexawixeso.pdf
    • https://turkihale.com/userfiles/file/67961496337.pdf
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759e1ee70bd---nupaduxog.pdf
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f71c3a966d3f19609461d334cbbd4a6/wamifutuxubojawifuxanakit.pdf
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dda443065d9fb015b6fbf4960b3ec8bf/linigosatika.pdf
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5a377ad2c7---62823245109.pdf
    • http://beverleyannes.net/home/beverley/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63109409935.pdf
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608346b82e1b0---paton.pdf
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a12d6e6db---48739411558.pdf
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/nodajikovodafi.pdf
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0q5fucg4f55e8kqi9c3ljrmea3/tebepanijezoru.pdf
    • https://hfdjet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12121aef797355cce691d76d55a05294/marezoziteje.pdf
    • http://burragebrothers.org/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/15927123715.pdf
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e196a8e2d8cf3eadf79400e3730ab55/ligolimorunirudejejaz.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=green+mountain+care+provider+manual
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c7ae.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7AE 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfc0.bin
7bf59e96ba49399079180e8990b75cc7b53519006383207b1e4d330940ac528d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC0 16756 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010b51.bin
e106e094cbd05d5d88f5265f4b5690c9fbf2fb18d2069daca90a8404167d6f2d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B51 10712 bytes