Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 524cb2ba7855cd1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.6 KB Created: 2021-06-27 06:46:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e2e0da717c3133f0c9891943fc53022b SHA-1: 204b41d1113f2b531a39fa466ce612b5145e74c9 SHA-256: 524cb2ba7855cd1ce07d9331c7fa4afe4d05bc3bfcb61ebb81d886ebb5095ab2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains. These links are likely intended to lead users to malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cancelled+shows+2020
    • http://thaihotelsale.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210607_33DE9FD9F68F37E6.pdf
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/57200266848.pdf
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3228db50af046b58f1572b0fd2f0be1/78539635694.pdf
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9c5a15043---puwusadaruku.pdf
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607abd96a5499---zigufubosapemuloru.pdf
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608945f0979d9---6571827477.pdf
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/14517698177.pdf
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/15851751871.pdf
    • https://kopari.hu/files/file/95639669529.pdf
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/28011015043.pdf
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/36964926445.pdf
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09c0626b74bd3136ce4264b67256b322/gixanuwodopugalinoto.pdf
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b82af35144a---fevatefonex.pdf
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72n7em55i92mejjocm85i6euf4/jotufijukutefakojane.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a04b453d64c---keferamogutet.pdf
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827f84119c4---75428925034.pdf
    • http://cambridgekapurthala.com/damana/userfiles/file/37437706669.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4d2c998551---94630885653.pdf
    • http://osheamaloneynylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/71073260468.pdf
    • http://architettoseneca.com/userfiles/files/62585715658.pdf
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac89706ed0---34242176540.pdf
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/guvimisap.pdf
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9tveb5n1ccu5e93kclt9q69686/80316594583.pdf
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/xokapopug.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_off00011371.bin
12e68172ad112df36d65068c665d52940acae5a5d16277e982a15ce5d252eb85
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11371 10536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012b86.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B86 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014398.bin
510f1ffe3737f253fc19a4ce332c7e83ac3adbdc1832c96306bc65a080b5ba7a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14398 17436 bytes