Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52bc7b1319ad0a15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-07-05 01:27:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: b13f19ccf842f7645714a4b4b16b175a SHA-1: 3e620626a4ebefeefd8731ec22c253231615cdd8 SHA-256: 52bc7b1319ad0a153a0a0ab28b7091509710bb3e076eb6139003f65e6f3bc4ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609feca27abb4---pajegorolodo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/biuodmfj6p91u006ooalsvkje0/91557431375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradmissions.com/ci/userfiles/files/rarapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886416b059a---vumaralazopozugofelavexed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a43b70a9a---75195387483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jessie.vn/images/ckeditor/files/71876677390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ahubrjbmi300cd57dd6788bsa6/julasux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsbuffalo.com/uploads/files/91852811407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariangelesorrico.com/galeria/files/44247847301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ee7c75e34bba30bc651ec22b5774deb/jupikow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080124cec9fc---55949394405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021062410023094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/pupipedolali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a63e95a5107b4246b1c6002fadeb96fb/kadopefuniboluwiwipam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulgreeter.com/userData/board/file/zimomamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7269798e83---44895563631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210515135709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078203d951eb---ketaxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b80c8fb74b9---4211284093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/17863483157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicaldistri.com/ckfinder_files/files/3515237021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnkls.com/userfiles/file/1623127715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f091b2b1be4fd3ce36ffdbd9342c3d2/41955045715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hg8tf01fv5uthen3lmdh2me5fs/xakagiruros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=clinical+chemistry+books+free+pdfPDF 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_off0000f2bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2BC 11260 bytes
SHA-256: 3a947fdb22def7604398bc410e043f2a21e53e3304c0116c4cea55739a28c1ea
font_01_sfnt_off00010cbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CBE 18008 bytes
SHA-256: df8358e385b2e607c0a7b448629f9d92f6f7b00390e37b11d71e060424091099
font_02_sfnt_off00013c3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1