Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c52c489660e111f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:03:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ca1eb86e75b5b1a6d8fbc15a675979d6 SHA-1: 289b60de97254938bb6453500ea9e12534ead02d SHA-256: 4c52c489660e111f7dd14f87c2103c08bb5bf0454fc98b7572a15d39a355ebf7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of a 'Download' button heuristic further supports the intent to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://bigcool.net/webroot/img/files/zilefizatoxegobamavow.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d1bda0f2c7b7361dd955403f394834b/72638059000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaea7f996c1---65257041093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elemonbg.com/Files/File/82854714215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gewoongroen.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/kokerolon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zigzagontwerp.nl/sites/default/files/file/kejovidirowuwugujesefem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acta-mobilier.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gopasopinilij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustycctv.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiwavabokipaxajozolen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dchs1961.com/clients/871949/File/mamalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cfc7f0b0929731561ada702b45bb726/93912049670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac15a850068---xefebil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vsrru.ru/userfiles/file/16780332057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://free-spirit-city.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/pabajidipabifekekugufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iohrp.org/f_files/files/91730843360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyacer-ecp.com/userfiles/files/20210825_015957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hbphoto.ca/resimler/files/gorujukomosakapidav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ecc6b539fa---98671853263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f20ba7dc1e54c5cbaea74d7b333f2bde/ripexojudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fultoys.com/userfiles/21049612576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----dtbfdwc0aaaev8k.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6431012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christianhouseshare.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20410725416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e46718fb7d---sozibijepijitadaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichitravel.com/uploads/news_file/tisipuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=excel+vba+create+pdf+landscapePDF 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_off0000d18b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD18B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9A2 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 323a24977f4497900469e07f91803a14c966d8bd173d156539da2010aeafd31b
font_02_sfnt_off00010225.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10225 17796 bytes
SHA-256: 4b1b02eaa0b1af7ad4af1bf980e9118a8e340347cedb684865ac2b3c63148206