Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52d3c9aa114b4cbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 10:22:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9ded1ac8440699ee4babe6373e5149e6 SHA-1: b14e39d1e20cb252a18d98927f9b71fe097d4b5c SHA-256: 52d3c9aa114b4cbb5acea1bf9a37ba39f46a562466e32654684fcd7d42bf8cec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=learners+licence+questions+and+answers+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://cioccolatogallucci.it/userfiles/file/tonelobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c145b4cc05---mudugaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e6d2017ae---muvumufixutunagulofelezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biaikatolikus.hu/files/file/50844879421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/82027905137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90282b996cebd1b4d0ced6dcbda64ca8/wowaxijudowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b02ada3cc---dezelamekewavadura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cafeinca.com/img/public/contenido/file/lolujexudujavaziwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauben-buchmeier.de/kleinberliner-schuetzen/userfiles/files/tudelujivisosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dd2dd9d3e36b82a11cef5997f9d2ad6/vezizanej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rklatex.com/userfiles/file/mozebar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104e6b0a812a---wuberowelixezoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demetraproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61939935487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52582907890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acbe8c78a92---julabimodomugegibit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revize-elektro.info/UserFiles/File/34275283464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609499c741432---durabereberoxugad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uav10juv672e8f4o8p43jcgmm4/34514966836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/171cd5b833ce325c73b001e874fbf821/salazap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b34b91fb828c02d19da1b0d08f06ad6/dibosumuxigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/vefusofixaxapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc021.com/userfiles/file/20210823171333_j4n406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://activesolutionelectric.com/images/file/dukotoretug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f68d6a3ec---rovitawaluput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac22d0236e---fozimubifukokagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b43416e3f6e---47727242579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e1fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1FC 17788 bytes
SHA-256: 4e3bdb7f1744bc38ececccf1c91e7984a142d418fc035dd196ef66909d029df2
font_01_sfnt_off000110a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000128c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128C0 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 03ea2b8e7d35ccc63bbac9b7b709a0d1a3e7ec6bffa69bc3cebc33bfeeff4d45