Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0852473b51804a39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 02:26:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: 8eba4f07c4f844cdcf6bee148e7c3c9d SHA-1: 36ffb3ed948c5353ccc248fb943281c44966f5a6 SHA-256: 0852473b51804a39118bba970be7428d1d7fe667ab31ff98c079d33fe63f769e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The heuristic 'SE_QR_LURE' also suggests a QR code might be present, further supporting a social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=web+qr+code+scanner+api PDF link annotation
    • https://greenlandpark.com/uploads/files/44225793463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://druckmaschinenservice.com/uploads/fce/files/45812729402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urgentcarepb.com/userfiles/file/witevewudag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://truhlarstvi-strakonice.cz/files/file/jejanena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7660c0a9b9c9e9ac480a900bd19139b6/15836791564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chimrodistribution.ro/poze_diverse/file/97222209661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecotranslation.ca/upload/editor/file/nobizobumiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anup.bo/images/files/dadalamifutij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fce38cf7c5---gulemadunefasofipirise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecohort.biz/userfiles/files/3806266275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alemarferries.alemarsnp.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nedozagigosawulidefeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecuriosityshot.com/46506142817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sperrincaravans.com/images/file/5931631062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fapannimario.it/userfiles/files/54266531161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yibetter.com/data/files/pavusefizofeveliwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahirealty.in/admin/userfiles/files/daneserumefalabapevanatov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/xaromazilixuretosusufodol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/219954f92dd0f027c6439e5cb012e93e/91107721842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapcdn.space/web/img/podborky/files/fixinakedobol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinruily.com/UploadFile/file/20210914184843410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/49909800133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kubermatkaplay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/goboxufajakerasodevojizow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/waven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lecachet.fr/docs/files/zikenuwadanipiluzi.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_off0000d697.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD697 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 64ecef16ae66f19426183de85b174a708abf2c56ba8154c64694ddd721d4b615
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE97 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000106a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106A9 18172 bytes
SHA-256: 1fcbbaf30594edf7543204aa3c43fd9843b149538fb72b6f64ce8cc63bf1a2d3