Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52512a25f3bd68d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2021-09-30 12:56:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: f0911b343f87e2888dd4cb030a48da47 SHA-1: 17ee4f8c8cb65be122b2ab2178f1a65cbed075a3 SHA-256: 52512a25f3bd68d6da1b499d7581c320b92626131c8583af37ccd2a62f8e8332
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. Several heuristics indicate that these links are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of the PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7814

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ros+cheat+android+no+root PDF link annotation
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    • http://cokhilegia.com/upload/files/lanaru.pdfIn PDF document text
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