Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52dc87d6a0257038…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-25 00:36:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 1481e15944823d90b955d8b13b7aff09 SHA-1: e353f9d163e079b0c5fd2fed8a6d432391ac17bb SHA-256: 52dc87d6a0257038526d0b0e590571393c369ef1afc01ea2c34817449e4e572e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a6415a92de69960c2a6b489a7fd8076/30316233737.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b649bd8173---tuzasazexotuboropobixev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/19368690462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17496c45410239639c9398242f952736/fovedijowogefovorujowabin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relans-nn.ru/images/docs/file/17880434864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u1iu26j7jc072vo5m079thofb8/21222343347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladue62.com/clients/2/2d/2d0487a90c18d3a1b3df44839405a665/File/93087481984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/87436585524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atdawnwelift.com/userfiles/file/guluvigoxolerivovola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmvassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4418d7ebf9f35af777e199865e6930c3/gujimomawujiredowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609efa659475f---91904283222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/dabotaramuliwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a0eb90a5d18ca8fc0fce4f7b603f503/32306036919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/82878401892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torbay.ru/images/uploads/file/6600193410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r50g1rhrjft6autsdjp3949vas/mutazobaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfec5b7b00350c215b9c4686776dee59/68229087448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twxcd.com/img-aim/files/60081595916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9bfb997704---kasolafopanedalanenuvagam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiorampinelli.com/file/geforinokevakomabopobodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansing.nl/userfiles/file/26609855053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnmrobotics.com/files/files/67202425398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d39c67abd1---39792268542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d7bf6c105598bc6c38fb9062138a452/11161496858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=balancing+chemical+equations+practice+sheet+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000e723.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE723 11412 bytes
SHA-256: 6351a90dbda552595231dd57f19829cd3d9f966c2b0443db2ee66a39652a0785
font_01_sfnt_off000101ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101AB 16812 bytes
SHA-256: 44bc0cd02a8e101233b79d4265d545fe98748f0ab83a2df3b44de4749d2f6453
font_02_sfnt_off00012d3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D3A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1