Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52cbcc352447eeb9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 03:26:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 899697ba87e8a748127d7995a2554012 SHA-1: 9445aa09269246ef03f07d708aec5372d42c6284 SHA-256: 52cbcc352447eeb9715212794ecbd715fd33778c7f2f5bda3735a3d250734036
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The presence of a 'Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure' heuristic strongly suggests a business email compromise (BEC) or phishing attempt aimed at financial fraud. No scripts were extracted, but the document's structure and embedded links are designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise pattern
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614013ed16903---8777157070.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jurad.eu/files/file/6197971412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.creativetalentnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rodemagujanotegaboton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/kulezaminopameralek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d4ae4827f6a389e1d4ea7921e980af8/43413324912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/juxepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeraldcovepartners.com/_data/images/file/biwurijobigovux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trickapotisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vedebederokowemowoludare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-ultratech.com/files/64269863478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe778e83f3---fajirugitid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panelshock.com/userfiles/file/93308270577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/98633700109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gotoippc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62200221641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywymc.com/userfiles/file/94997860726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobiligennari.com/userfiles/file/57212254694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://form4concrete.ru/pics/cont/file/tizovizesujirigusavave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh4-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents/files/wigunufakulerowiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/48749407072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinosteelcode.com/filespath/files/20210916045552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tahyuh.com/uploads/files/202109040606205483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upnbkk.com/file_media/file_image/file/76747012725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transdeliveris.lt/userfiles/file/84242788786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noavarservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dozesuvujukamitufaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161360f462afb3---7312702878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+restore+messages+on+new+phonePDF 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_off0000dc92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC92 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 8c2efce2feebe0f82c93328642173cc1b946ecff44040bc8b6fd3576cc155a0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4C3 17844 bytes
SHA-256: 44fd497a69ddf978afdb370146f200208a70ee8e255ba99e14ec501d7095d91a
font_02_sfnt_off000122f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1