Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a52198de9737175c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-07 01:58:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 58ecf7970aa6037be5a6756c0e851dd7 SHA-1: 64460defcbab1a99901b8eae72060b341370d8ee SHA-256: a52198de9737175cd423d7a62bd24b497b2023a69c754bdc5a2e415066641c6b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous external URIs and a link farm heuristic confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9762

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://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/40704355909.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160988617a269d---zunuzibarutumususegijat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119pump.net/d/files/mumodan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078398827ee7---lexalef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/8515424548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5oscb91rvvh5ke4gq5ufh9s623/gujajejavadevogozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0fbb792d5adad20bc48441ac0292902/71784113927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c2a35f91f3666d29f0859594a2c3bc1/sufenig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pokewifatow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba93739224a---jexobitalobikeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rs0c8rlkfnnk24bbaackat6tk7/33031818106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iveducentar.com/uploads/assets/file/kufaxibaxikekupodiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ece7378a0d---55727755849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustycctv.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tezijugiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/noretizubuminowonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adsbudget.net/userfiles/file/pexedip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g58dro2oei8b3dc7tcomnu2vrp/1573753189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/zowap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://douzonebnf.com/upload/file///23905893920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scard.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/27787448398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0f978800d---25615059491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/119310deb457af19ec3026bb84896e6d/74321443860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vsetinrally.cz/userfiles/file/43262416827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/gutedop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/wotuvezozotunugulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nhmo14kds2sn9v1aekntq77umj/guvinenokarofubepuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/63887673567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+draw+fortnite+cartooning+clubPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d521.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD521 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 4cd872384cbf4ee6e55d4f6f49ce1176c3875a609cc03bf368274484ed52b403
font_01_sfnt_off0000ede3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE3 16164 bytes
SHA-256: fd494554c7a7a2c4488382a78096c535ff133766c7221992be4f6a58596b2467
font_02_sfnt_off00010355.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10355 18340 bytes
SHA-256: 5684edd166adf21b768f6fba9b452ec82d580258f67ac3454874f504f512f477
font_03_sfnt_off00013350.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13350 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1