Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52cda0933ce191de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-13 20:29:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: bcdb12286a0037e982fbcc985c664be6 SHA-1: 014cb43eb7e336d793d22b96fd16e6e08dba5da9 SHA-256: 52cda0933ce191ded393856899c43d011d0dd09796589a44aa3de3f18ea6a517
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it is used to host and distribute malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b6108f117---58396240669.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099563ca7fe3---zevigijaxikepavag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ea10f6b90d---nuzudunutawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc560117e1---80257373251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/31080346490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a30596d2692---bugixelel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/91593141754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okuninka-biale.pl/userfiles/file/294156984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021071221332973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0fb50b94ca---50969938057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43419274081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c40d3beb9cc---18418539921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/zivuzegawaveminolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a008051dcd7---20405566520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulmenu.com/uploads/files/12295509470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7g895u14ht711usavsgl00o46i/51649933950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b133fb624a---38574637871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riceart.ir/basefile/files/71727902622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb40336b7b---638187949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-praha.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fovowalowiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1vdoldnkrdkjp2n69kocrl9cub/sukiliropurumek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0pkq8jmjcptdtq5b0fn584ehd0/30581102726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1f587dea1---pagokenutovoxuvuxunop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosyromania.com/media/file/35891919230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pplbo4sngaitdkc8pbrt9jifrg/xarekowavaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f252cca226---wotajusuvebokakuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteelephant.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2aa9227bfe687e900ead5f375f98be4e/lujalafamutulegurutaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+liters+are+in+a+cupPDF 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_off0000ee2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE2F 17728 bytes
SHA-256: c37e48dbd5f7f9dec12c70685eac8c7ffa653d9b7ab88f1d62683956ddc9c650
font_01_sfnt_off00011c74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C74 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001348b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1348B 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 90061f7dfc68870819463fe757f0eee248e6e50250956aae4c741c57d49796cf