Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52ce4a45a8bb06be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-06-25 21:54:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3468af236df804734e8e52c89c27f3c6 SHA-1: f2c01f08616bb53693d9d2400550ba5946854bcb SHA-256: 52ce4a45a8bb06be15595cb9e877c695d735882f7d82ec61c27980a4e30341ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The presence of ClamAV detection and ML classification as malicious, along with heuristics flagging it as a link farm on disposable hosting, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the structure implies exploitation for client execution via user interaction with the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd829dcb5a---73142589134.pdf
    • http://isgsrl.it/images/file/rezotiwivevawajuluk.pdf
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37f2c6d192de1efbe409a0907e5ae588/29507712811.pdf
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba0457d6329---58053199724.pdf
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7f8fc118c---sovevadusa.pdf
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/347db9ace8f16113433c29a05d676ad2/2841134462.pdf
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15358821874af0bee49fbc0527b2a3f3/saxegufuwikedir.pdf
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/biwedenugiripasagotuf.pdf
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f68024c78---75146293840.pdf
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f62f3492fd---59739785865.pdf
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160ce227f9a74c---dunigabipasagitigop.pdf
    • http://orderleesushi.com/uploads/files/gilasijor.pdf
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/74432817197.pdf
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/luxurusivakapifujokidawom.pdf
    • http://hillcountryawningsandsunscreens.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070469b067be---ramekalubumiranumixozoret.pdf
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/nopokeguxijigo.pdf
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b151e591de88fb1d39d85682c1af5ca1/ralumovuvo.pdf
    • https://oxi-dental.ro/imagini_ws/ragijogisufo.pdf
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6qu54m32mgmvt8f3rspv8m9cs7/85657235050.pdf
    • https://mecaniquekd.ca/upload/file/6514386797.pdf
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ef3833c08---74614824868.pdf
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/nevobawug.pdf
    • http://resetimpianti.it/reset/public/file/xavenibamomodat.pdf
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbc06ac446---vowezatorukiparu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=check+if+string+is+xml+c%23
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c0cb.bin
9fa8e1b9c2473857a357010ea46b4d7a196b842aa37cb9d5b8013917d66949bc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0CB 10724 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d940.bin
394e25c978db97b5cef4dc55451235ff482b6328362eff0b677682922e2cdd79
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD940 16932 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010596.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10596 16792 bytes