Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c52eb3989cfc801…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 13:58:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 43043500b3f9af698e6743e000ede6a9 SHA-1: 6b9fc8ae75c8b481384574647bdba3c96f0660c8 SHA-256: 0c52eb3989cfc80100c3f578541c0563d8a52c6248729fc4282876395a751b9a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=calculus+ab+study+guide
    • http://sbhs1967.com/clients/8/89/8985ce50e7417da620f75e2af787291b/File/jexepugiwitadevu.pdf
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-20/20210520151935247608.pdf
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7505b7fe4a5f60f450f72db6b22e7532/59984942473.pdf
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb3e707e7e---75897181181.pdf
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a1197a93f4---doxakelewukuwinon.pdf
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764a5150623---wugirufotovole.pdf
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5beb9811224092400410b0eaeec79c7/97506699376.pdf
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e382f1d9a3---67913975014.pdf
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607435df9d333---63633542758.pdf
    • https://www.foundationofhope.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608294173f7fb---89084622465.pdf
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/805ccf9c8cc5f879161a1c60d89ca93d/70060818030.pdf
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/95830158647.pdf
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2033d3b37f---lovudobizegitenama.pdf
    • http://chupanhnoithat.vn/upload/files/sujegeziv.pdf
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/20215191617365693.pdf
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86fc36768a---roxefili.pdf
    • http://119hero.kr/userData/board/file/52205069127.pdf
    • http://bhs-class1957.com/clients/35434/File/fisorepifapamefubovexekis.pdf
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/jowojewam.pdf
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/tabid.pdf
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5f2b973f4446004c194d82df93d7cf8/nigilunodibutejadesi.pdf
    • 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_off0000e9fd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9FD 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001020f.bin
776da865ff97a725af256081d26058da75f650d7de4e63299c9b5b9a52098d6a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1020F 16676 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012d62.bin
ea7f581faf46a070f59dbe4d8d904dd7fbda2298894588bf1f439e34fd44779b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D62 10604 bytes