Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52e3ad2f2b359886…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 21:00:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d118867eb9d8cb861cea60b1426a4622 SHA-1: 15a1f7eaf372ff936d3f6c1633db5ae7049b1629 SHA-256: 52e3ad2f2b35988684230d1687d59e5a56c68e725a95c57cee47f40a75f956c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be metadata from the wkhtmltopdf tool, providing no direct user-facing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://kfoodntea.com/dataroom/file/23155480833.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ratodua.com/contents/files/19997733129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polnische-zaune.de/userfiles/file/7861753371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yevres.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tojefom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourgrodno.by/images/content/file/kefipejuzomilipoxowowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akiisushi.com/uploads/files/234196430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidaleve.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49813115972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/norawisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magicdiscoradio.hu/userfiles/file/44724156828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toscanafantastica.com/userfiles/file/nugusamaxelerirumax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup3.com/contents/files/menugawimesezola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e15cd906e2---nimin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vinoplaza.nl/img/upload/files/lareligazulosukakaraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdsps.org/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/kuxaniwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatechkj.pl/upload/fck/file/2831419546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiyaslo.com/uploads/files/remidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruedi-leuthold.com/userfiles/files/juxukufududonomezudadunas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtech-utm.pl/userfiles/file/bidinazuwemewerajepak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongthamnguoc.vn/img/files/vunovikomovufiluvipiretul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140bb7a74be7---69038777983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8l1crt6t2nald18hllcc88pius/lemixijatobuluwodigum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/wibifejoduretatugix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138a032ddc68---gopuwabapiwatimipivipisib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancephoto.ru/userfiles/files/72558677103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ddbfee00b17476064b565257d9864a1/nulose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=state+board+11th+physics+book+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_off0000c9c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9C4 11040 bytes
SHA-256: f5b5d3c63add92fdede90ba8b7e3b0ed9c4301a2108e51f7a1ea6c2519973686
font_01_sfnt_off0000e374.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE374 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB86 19596 bytes
SHA-256: b34a93b4094770d1d2db84ec16d40802ae018ffcea9baf4c95258af4399b2e14

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