Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52a794f64cbede27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-08-31 05:29:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e37b3b96fae3b4ce9f471f3bacd5f07f SHA-1: 2f1146608def898d129e9e350d6bcc7e28b3c0cd SHA-256: 52a794f64cbede27686781d222c55f6bd9ccd109b851b6d095801cb3fd899f99
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The malformed stream length heuristic indicates potential exploit activity within the PDF structure, likely to facilitate the redirection or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7249f1c120f9c622895c8b884e7d7549/24825356639.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.tw/upload/actfiles/fufijirewuzilowakawobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elmundodelapiscina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16480394029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texasstatealphaxialumnae.com/clients/f/fe/fe72632f573fdc77cca6b85875c63e8a/File/tavazavoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evergreencans.com/userfiles/file/tuwifelol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0bda2504c---wikik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebsulmare.com/userfiles/files/butorirug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.akilciilacdernegi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38094266603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stotex.rs/files/tuvenesonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globaltranslation.com/demo/global_translation/beta/userfiles/files/pesavas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/valijevitujul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/82283484962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gryfarmerskie.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/pipomolopisijakuzoleti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8873602c56cf27c3136b28a78745ee1e/fojonunakoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab49536f47e---24074837228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/22955159510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cincia.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34649815590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d14da9b86---valujerusenaxalilimele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vote4dannybarry.com/clients/2/2f/2f5d4f67c16906f9b09010289963de11/File/sirabojatesapekutax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d35cc7f69e---zojivusagevoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thrifty-uy.com/files/others/wuwuzuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1702612e4cfd19a6da03921f7bac028d/dupanof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=dq11+playable+charactersPDF 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_off0000df12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF12 16712 bytes
SHA-256: 6efbc646d038de47d77a972112dba5f6414d93f99a16c5355b66a2ea8ee9e4ff
font_01_sfnt_off00010a3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A3A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012251.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12251 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 55bd750beb01ab47ea8d0a7d41df95c330f6e21592d8de0fa65e8a43344b85c0