Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 052ff39f14d80e17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 02:00:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 40b9c804419b1d96f206d583d2411501 SHA-1: 4b0be85af4dad490d73610918654d68a41f67261 SHA-256: 052ff39f14d80e172d7a14c2774f2aa4f06de2f868727a414779653166b7e9ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded URLs point towards a malicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59bae48fad8bd1849b73bf8be2ab2cdd/zokexugezexapesesuraluf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://niszczeniewaw.pl/userfiles/file/lopimuvur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7rhp2s5behm83i11o0sts0darg/buwomowabajiganeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/73157234479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be36d4adda---8485122249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efdcf2b2addf42b57073c6b57ad8154c/78546244010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608420bbc9d84---furenebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082838bf1b4f---roxanikivipeposina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cd8a5079452093ce7ae5bb0146b74c0/vexizubatibipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97350e2da861148abf9d1e4997c3b735/32757071640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donauwell.at/userfiles/file/97495665694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609449d43dd2e---88417078255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba4b2299866---728899915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b45442a61a2---70960053298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortemadera.com/wysiwygfiles/file/xozoxexezegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/78041273050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096874fa1190---dawijup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokobrunnen.com/idata/xivimupezelowusobewitam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioidahoacuong.com/uploads/image/files/xuloruxobozulinoxadasimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd11fb7ee4bf1438c9b37e422c377694/1249514445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f69c03876e3cd9fd5be32b329e522a9/lipiwasovilorilelis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/51084940891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okwecare.com/usr/userfiles/files/13576660826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=converting+a+pdf+to+a+jpg+filePDF 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_off0000d720.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD720 16576 bytes
SHA-256: 426d2be79d19fa09b39a023b470ba78dda63ed431ce9da01643003252c0fad93
font_01_sfnt_off0001020d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1020D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A24 10732 bytes
SHA-256: fc94503c907e43b5a31444f0cfb6795db75bdb36b9bb7c605ef0db625f56f15c

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