Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 752032ba62bdd8e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

148.1 KB Created: 2021-08-04 07:56:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b8a9980ebb39cab31bcaf29bd7c1cace SHA-1: e8538957f5cdf8470736a0889148980b7de240ff SHA-256: 752032ba62bdd8e0216ce82b7c62f42e6523829d22b81a27a064cf9b7a2fc258
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Multiple URLs point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://porpora.biz/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///34692671815.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pezenasenchantee.fr/userfiles/file/27972598352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/mezarajazemavenisuxapitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.vn/upload/files/79848546539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3a6e7aa7a3---jafefizoxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shssailors1969.com/clients/3/36/366f78b21138e0f8005dfe6cc5e09e30/File/45554911712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolingrealestate.com/your-home-cleaner/FCKuploads/file/fajojosisotejofaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///zubigud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tentimesneedlehill.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/mofadexebovurasori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebslang.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/butegumirazumitidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherryontop.pl/upload/fotki/file/dowexava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachova-terapia.sk/images/file/33804044399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ropesadventure.com/d/files/nuzepofalugovepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078749349c3b---jifufefopoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dac0eafc15---disitefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12b7b90acbf137b405aa4899acc70197/busoligimizakul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1e0f263a3e---44951653351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/920779116f288487a783fc7ea7135085/97636859909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e1848c92bf---penojimaremosazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/niwepukatovivavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/60518868861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chaletsuenodesol.de/files/midomakekifesevokil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/310849189725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketdoanbus.com/webroot/img/files/89992812137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/nonamago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=greek+mythological+names+listPDF 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_off0001c834.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C834 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 188f79329bfefe6cad8dd4a2d1740cbdb4a49d9e5b5f8446638004e0eacfbd48
font_01_sfnt_off0001e165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E165 34720 bytes
SHA-256: 94e802f20c9b7e949a6ca0279fb9755bbd3932130d49e6996978d82f883c5fae
font_02_sfnt_off000229c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x229C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1