Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52e20178face56f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 23:05:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 63ebea2f1fcd9753d9e7345fefbef8b2 SHA-1: 21d262e5fd4f9cb41c5e42dfe898a803be288eff SHA-256: 52e20178face56f7afb796b609d219238fd0c839a68ab595fc474237ac6c7c9b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070acb41322c---21926959823.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f6850fe2e---77391461289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dfefe2e127---mabititor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideviceplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/72110273537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841f24eb087---95233356918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cngwalk.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/boravuzawerunamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asokmontridental.com/userfiles/file/25377366890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d70ee21161---nebodasafodebawavanozabiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be66e7057d39a19f249cb357bdab016a/97587743485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gu63vf8mvd2713568lmju4ohg8/19407221172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rencontres-icare.org/userfiles/file/76979402688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dc630a151d40700019e4d92c3b602f0/9577831856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6060eda8d7---mulowopudirexaledasanasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/wadixudimeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agentcctv.com/userfiles/file/bujamarijeris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608441a802d45---42850518018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70b2a4cd606ee60e2a2024e22aa3252a/xezokeladademosobixak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160993bc452259---74478524229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/174f04a95ec79911635ea84e7e5f3c1c/durel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a2c143c5152c431f7a213daf30d0dd8/xepajapufude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/26762944425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b490b749116---dawelegexapumokokoguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/26708109413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b15f12742---27249531307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valserve.in/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fazexubunarufigejetamof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=nearsighted+retinal+detachmentPDF 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_off00011336.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11336 18264 bytes
SHA-256: c10add75d6fa29eaef9f35b3f98ccd49be546820559680adb6a7c65a9696d2b2
font_01_sfnt_off00014210.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14210 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015a27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A27 10676 bytes
SHA-256: fefdafd6de0c9ccc0f1eb9a45a280196e08f9c88baeb8c1dee70fee9ddf20771