Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52b380f83976b657…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-10-03 13:28:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: ff4c7a2560420467598d1b7f8a8172a0 SHA-1: a2b848e0aeec0e583983748391fd8ce24ebef9be SHA-256: 52b380f83976b6577f6ffc4f53ca81a38440f7d114a00107db8752e6dd003c70
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are strongly indicative of a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=all+about+escrow PDF link annotation
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/kulizafibunudazajute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f8426999d2---minumoluzijuvilig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dija.lv/public/userfiles/file/29743398889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnsgafgl.netsociality.com/upload/files/51088066312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12430177086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143a72d19bfb---5476085168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavalnerina.com/userfiles/file/51093427680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijp2.com/contents/files/18619589066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaie.org/userfiles/file/20210912212635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3019284d5fb8837f194b1f368de39e71/25908080439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rtaadmin.mrv-educationservices.com/content_file/files/98501659361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.habitat-morvan.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48850242321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpjseah.news-read.com/upload/files/37271759097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalcareerclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/jejibim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tramhuonghanoi.vn/upload/files/jaremadenevedasekilewom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614efe466b808---luvom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klawiatury-foliowe.pl/_data/file/tusomifufuxolotifoxaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prieur-equipement.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32373533276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themis-lex.com/userfiles/files/33236162777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16152f7eda4d66---xonurusubipaxalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netcentricnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6110945770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tttinox.com/upload/userfiles/files/difafewejotetogufobig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/xuzazitokozewuwobubuduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenfountains.com/uplds/file/rowosesimuxifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b0b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0B2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8C9 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 6ec4e8622019fb9fe4e367f5ac82652c74890e0bd9ac8c7f2e88eb323c74144b
font_02_sfnt_off0000e068.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE068 16628 bytes
SHA-256: 9b9952a10446f36783046d6ec6504396bfc74f2bf10e21b8714ddd3bf72cdfe2