Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52dafd27ba79db46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-11 03:32:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 04c226933defc86d3a193f6c06f3dc38 SHA-1: 4a5d55bac08e7c4b9da60f8b06e72c246892175b SHA-256: 52dafd27ba79db46cf33b04b20181557397648d646b5ab26e9ae84a6c48e81b8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other potentially malicious hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam. The file's structure and URL distribution suggest it's designed to lead users to external, potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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.petersonassoc.com/emailimages/file/82328508950.pdf
    • https://ou-ravda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32143907388.pdf
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oc67krh6drlj852pob1k37j856/14767448174.pdf
    • http://tasarimak.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vosaxikazosaxivage.pdf
    • https://hoangvan.vn/wp-content/uploads/files/rowawowekumusitaz.pdf
    • https://callmarkinvestments.fortunekenya.com/callmark/files/pofebotakeseminepapi.pdf
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613392d05be44---miwuwarafezigolififizos.pdf
    • http://ferrogep99.hu/static/media/file/23515567637.pdf
    • https://centaur.vri.cz/docs/files/88749021115.pdf
    • https://bizimpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/59024292586.pdf
    • https://sedefartphotography.com/resimler/files/42512035206.pdf
    • http://ekhoron21.mn/uploads/files/zujogovutekapijuxufili.pdf
    • https://www.shipgo17.com/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuwugaxovapufize.pdf
    • http://rlangkhan.com/upload/userfiles/files/jifiluxuritufuvusi.pdf
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/zunepamixururus.pdf
    • http://ulv-fogger.es/d/files/38658274403.pdf
    • https://nsstore.mx/ckeditor/ckfinder/archivossubidos/files/10639761182.pdf
    • http://trevorhannant.com/wamokajoganikapilaga.pdf
    • http://alwaysshine.com/fileimage/file/58444728380.pdf
    • http://himalayakebab.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/vurida.pdf
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c092cb5ac18e8f442fd5744ca8bc9329/23436488576.pdf
    • http://jiji.pgo.tw/pic/uploads/files/17764169516.pdf
    • https://skykharchono.mn/editor/files/zirufizesuzo.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=transforming+trigonometric+graphs
    • 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_off0000d0ae.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0AE 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8c5.bin
580f7d339588bc5fe65638dfb6cdd0f8d7b39db37d3040b40360bdfc49947b3b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8C5 10844 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001019e.bin
7002f4ce84860eaf2298311738f217b10a5581ae2aeda22162bcb639116ef505
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1019E 17636 bytes