Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52b0f329751af5c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-05-20 16:31:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 6fc32f6d5edece8c854e891db534d0d8 SHA-1: ea41659d99f4158746d212893ac4c3e4c9066a36 SHA-256: 52b0f329751af5c4e3ffb6c9b19316f41c28ca3a45d8321fca0e597b228120d4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • 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 https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b55b6b2b69c431aa16429833d68b63d1/faletag.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3080c9ca3f29b2b7db36555679952b45/xapakivefupoditemabok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c50cee9311f2b8fc7f53bd2ff5cb9ad2/jevunesixofomet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/labavowasorulotasow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0jki52gctjfq8mp2c25g868qrk/dimogebijiwebesijimidivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltagroup.bg/uploads/file/xuwigojupanowutapipej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f94283d9048272e386d702e0d52aa185/julaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dad7f5da7191ac237345d3f4f375391b/99497625686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/49263593937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607561d9aeead---zinatej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607c298cd1ac0---38898629271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26507ad3fc0c5eee02707645ad9e08c4/58670521728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jahanchart.ir/data/files/file/koxoviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jh05gf6jgof9gn4jsmnggpj754/29347472937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d54dcd8eaf---28560093371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7g5mvlf93hmbt57cbd3i8knp4a/88858996510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b339e46d0654ec7182d17e3e4f6cb276/13528917578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4fec1fefb---vaxovawudana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=tubemate+2.2+5+apk+free+download+for+pcPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000ea7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA7A 5656 bytes
SHA-256: 30d10ff1952c9b5b6d1274ac7dd88f379ab627dab191c372fab6cb0a7a283799
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDC4 12604 bytes
SHA-256: 89105e36fcbae09e678998e975c6fd7e9ae13f72d9f35f1c5288652710756d02
font_02_sfnt_off00012599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12599 16108 bytes
SHA-256: b10dcad0861d5f3cd9b94bcc0b3008a2f778be511d30989fa3518a4d31d20aaa