Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52c2f1478c107414…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-07-22 12:10:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6203444a6d31e757ff97d94a49cf11a4 SHA-1: 8bb48c43f2fd192fd3a541ef132e7a14f331bc75 SHA-256: 52c2f1478c10741425713d908283c9cd72d8c92d413c1f8d2b49b56196d51460
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and heuristics point towards a phishing or redirection attack, likely delivered as an attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 5

  • 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://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gvni6pl01esugum5ho8u03kvc1/lutatekawiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780af05c8d6---koselamuwoledamiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/vopej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehotelgateway.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/32786800834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerel.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/xifumedijesunarulomena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05f658a106b506b93500dcbcd49aa1f2/32026504365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnicamistasnc.it/file/kiwenujiranuzira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/zivewurovubugerades.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f06f75a357e---4229899935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staropolski.net/Upload/file/66111244273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160939e9456c3e---26227314417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b40f1e584---94819128720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49733e0c5a1e4f3db29583830aea8162/ladotinanufawazinomipiwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/41881898248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d33f4fd290a8f295499741f1b26efd32/nokorawuropugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ccf736a90---58712741063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4b0a52dc8---29751618080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iltuosarto.com/file/gubavefofawefikabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/nakalirezalejebodixemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d705a55556b---5872465850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-kitchen.ru/files/files/62036052263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pqhjie7t3sts2l4lotbah3d8uo/13418227322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a118547a40b---sogufakamogupujedebed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=bookkeeping+and+accounting+are+synonymousPDF 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_off0000d351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD351 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 58adb31503c107e54aabfd6eeb516dbf26ee4f44c26c3e3e2940ce428d77ec09
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED50 17080 bytes
SHA-256: 5ddd53b4061ed357e84f0f1c292a6a0dcddb2215c7a5f68344df9b8a8a1f43bc
font_02_sfnt_off00011a05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1