Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52de239acdf2a92b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-21 15:58:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: eb80d550bf5b3626e7ca7de48e585bf1 SHA-1: d69e36a6426e7c4c586d4bc7500da1ddac0d8fea SHA-256: 52de239acdf2a92b6c415494fb3866f89aa9dd5d70a0925104140f22f2859646
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a link farm and the nature of the URLs indicate an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://www.renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33853951641.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zzwgjx.com/d/files/rufuwupixumipozaduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aa5alfu.kz/file/zekibemawod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glearningsolutions.com/userfiles/files/webud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vishwkarmaenterprises.com/webroot/img/userfiles/files/68857701707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jpjplumbingandheating.com/FCKeditor/file/fomobevap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scout-educationguide.com/userfiles/file/borokepuxegenomewule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recuva.kr/upload/fck_img/1632012298/file/nunexaxewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velomagazin.hu/UserFiles/file/zegemupenakofotasefegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161453644ace00---96298586794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanauhrova.cz/files/49777211017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pezenasenchantee.fr/userfiles/file/7992826294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandviewcommunity.com/userimages/kezonitibiremonulujuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d913c9be3ef9318a3ff47fc10031dc7/42600390211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antansconstructions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pobovajafasatofikaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kommunikator.nu/demo/userfiles/file///13628056090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knshzj.com/CKEdit/upload/files/5144222736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuh-tarng.com/userfiles/file/16657615012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mclandpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/31344279633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestwingsbeltsville.com/uploads/files/wibejagusifinamel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50levgcl4ac79fi4rb72j5os20/3917346675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingscolley.com/uploads/files/nesusifix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=barron%27s+sat+reading+pdfPDF 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_off0000b8a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0B7 19280 bytes
SHA-256: 7a4c68483875e04c67eb1d59548d5379ca55aa2160e643e11005c464c97d3e89
font_02_sfnt_off000103a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103A2 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 9c8f2280b6302bc567acf05a8c39af80575f835d9a55b00c74784ed2a81ce5c4