Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 252c524c76494447…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:47:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 948ccc0abde8726a483f516b8c4aca02 SHA-1: 9dc7f8f2445f7b37b9159ecd36f9edc18f285b8b SHA-256: 252c524c764944476dade357bf719900509a7cca4fbbde751275c2647d03edb3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely to lure users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vafb4to3f3eieco4k5j3mgal65/12916610566.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nguyenthaotech.com/upload/files/80865392509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bfb3829e6---gaviwozudizobuxokorukali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c4367d064---vutafafures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2607aacd2d0edbaeac53aca3d6eb0651/jokevevolugamulusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/rixafukapipibegov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a88c1f29c5a---29531773482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotel.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/7815872485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6vi35jgsjjflvjogvli9volbg/farevurebimewaloxefobozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eda952f37f619bc9a94bf3101ca29bd/58157886521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cribpointonline.org/cribpointonline/userimages/file/60332510201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/htkclmj43k998mqvd73nfcv7u1/mimudegezud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc897adb5d2cbbcc3a2153f0a1b6c381/29209410991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076dbef25d2c---pavazaxekenaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/23276871697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks-system.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9391748395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735cfc9d669---95749050859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4443d2254f---vomusunodolijapakofugoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appletechsolutions.com/userfiles/file/ginagosobazipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51281092de77c541cb61c4aec96178a5/51764586567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a529aa1200---54856467745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contelex.it/userfiles/files/todag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/84627320658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4la23hpc7q1ua0iplpab759n4/xusegexafigof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eca4955425---28917584373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=healthwell+medical+groupPDF 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_off0000f604.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF604 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E16 17976 bytes
SHA-256: fbe288ff53681992a1749ab1ade587ff1e685c3708b068d53b002204639afde0
font_02_sfnt_off00013c69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C69 10868 bytes
SHA-256: e66e119ceeee3e49dd8a3f147f7474bb14f3ed0df4639ee5b1d29c5954d0fa25