Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52bc1fcfe2c63757…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 09:25:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e37c4c87fda167736ab83a37ee91c2fa SHA-1: 1b7fd62f57bf54d55ca2d6a8a386043a99299c28 SHA-256: 52bc1fcfe2c63757d396c7af775b95e9a04563f8f4285b5a3031d87db4f9b7e4
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic indicates that the document likely instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal, a common social engineering tactic to bypass macro restrictions. The presence of numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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
  • ClickFix social engineering attack high SE_CLICKFIX
    Document instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal — consistent with ClickFix attacks that bypass macro restrictions by tricking users into running malicious commands directly
  • 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 http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/20210610162334873198.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bda123aea5---tusorijugip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a40c3c71b---30477506785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/7353163882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0bdf81916---10199255577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70764fcb156624bbc5fce3969518a836/38323716866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f80e6c154a---lasatozijafelisadizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d017430d7---suvejizimasomogib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab7864d47a3a8669dec9e995c16d71be/44118106445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onishi-kyosendo.jp/archive/32886739339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa93a7e6166064af00119bcb8b0db115/40674138640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birudongker.com/contents//files/xugomerixulal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccdc5d4a5c---wifemadoderi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/68808225394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eefce2f973---zonaxufumuvosebaper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/202166736349343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisdomtours.net/upload/file/bamonavebovavaxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5cb07286e4---dubaxadimotakopekimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/67198527865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n-production.com/upload/fckeditor/file/46095973727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cavalier-hundezucht.ch/userfiles/file/98832448997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailitara.lt/bites/uploads/file/87671658031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t31n0l2690m8jnh89eboavceg1/61100090338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/2544517556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=windows+office+2007+product+keyPDF 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_off0000f397.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF397 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 50ffa5118a777247b89575cb6cee29498fb198ce6ea34ed599e04c9684f5b080
font_01_sfnt_off00010dbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DBE 17944 bytes
SHA-256: 257ecd151b2b140a674b66cbb15f8ec4874c21342625ff3bc6e3a904263c428a
font_02_sfnt_off00013cb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1