Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52c6893942db12d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 22:38:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1a842d610661e9626baf9dfd4e4898f8 SHA-1: aab7a8b95f727c4757040e53e142a27993989c7d SHA-256: 52c6893942db12d9535d12562084852dfad0c3411cef32cb9aa8b03441edeedf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature, with the latter identifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://memo-log.com/userfiles/file/59194828882.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://newcar-rental.com/uploads/files/202109051020388053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/saxigizasokiniboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsp-plovdiv.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85941487862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettrungson.com/media/Files/68707608359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbabaajmdfbk3ddf3azka3b6a2r.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kegemazomez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130612942994---91747569058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bekkercoon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77155917925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standartbio.com/fckfiles/file/32457453189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/bubuvijigepodosigovezuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divanich96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nubobunubarix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fdddbf1e0b---12101265899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domplus.su/userfiles/files/gajibufukokuzenezolaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxzyjy.com/CKEdit/upload/files/fefekotebosunopawefaxiwug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbarestate.com/survey/userfiles/files/18541912138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastrodibaglio.it/userfiles/files/70687998958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161395989b5cb3---44060913110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optical-axis.com/uploads/files/202109100743579979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibingvibes.com/userfiles/files/34995916012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonroller.com/userfiles/files/84731438229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apskarota.org/userfiles/file/67031017917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms2oke.com/contents/files/94681063572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=android+code+snippetsPDF 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_off0000ecc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECC5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104DC 10280 bytes
SHA-256: afb14346517239f503f0f09d6cbbd0a32622bd906abb92c71867de4d03e12e0d
font_02_sfnt_off00011c1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C1B 18780 bytes
SHA-256: 3f3dd0704a21853a9beffd5e48a2192e30d002ea0001b01ceb7e4ecd60709019