Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52300a202477d729…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 18:14:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 08e50c772c701efeb48ba8f1ca99c84c SHA-1: 0a73cf65c2cf191de360371180bc489362d92967 SHA-256: 52300a202477d7295bf6666ba9c807888477760bc48a72bc7a8568b55ff0dc80
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b042744f2670dd38daed1cb39b2a372/68668012140.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://greenfuturevietnam.com/Upload/files/tisodimup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/888d556f65d69ce9156d983b3f760887/83117526439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okeefesreef.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9677543960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760320b330f---kujomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf2d0da79b7---32368353279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91f3aa0461---ditipib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fea85d35c---bugitilixaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homenet-spb.ru/userfiles/file/31386219176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c82a048f85---71472295007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahypilat.cz/admin/file/22541364292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5181001338e8429c1664c387ee2b3f9e/84180098578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0edb4e119805eb83f3a55449d09e83ac/jizodadabotoluvanoreji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/kezowat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ea23a0eccb4ca4f894b20db28ce2265/tabetivesojiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef0a154ac0---48894653241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peak-experience-japan.com/46250214285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/60747197138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f4abff2d23---79177101732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0k419uc64onlpk7u8636um5l81/wezuwixujakefebexege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegas-shop.net/uploads/files/rilokosofexokaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itracmediav5.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85099130058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da7604d4eca4b1631e38c7205ec841f6/20113564395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doucetplasticsurgery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruzesanukekizazom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=regulatory+affairs+interview+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off00010f59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F59 17792 bytes
SHA-256: fbb89f52d6edc2c829b8eb6c33ade0404da17b311566d31f4313a03617cfb24b
font_01_sfnt_off00013e05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E05 11088 bytes
SHA-256: c341ad24683b8f79f04001ca5e4cf95a22e82afa90eece55a75577ce35a7c032
font_02_sfnt_off00015790.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15790 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1