Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c52b422638bb6c09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 20:37:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ee11ff482068e7297291fa2023e1351e SHA-1: 3a747733ab3d898290ac6d56587d537af682ed36 SHA-256: c52b422638bb6c09d872a708faa2476fa64eb8e4ed6bee7c5020d048338d196b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics point to a deliberate structure designed to host external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffdf1a5eac98633f8a13d6fee2d33ab4/26391100579.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84369adc5b96a864c707b241de3303b2/40794660834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f21083d1b---vajegoluwewitanitobap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bensonhigh67.com/clients/55910/File/figewabezaleguzaludupepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/tazifebixakosuwinen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db40c244cc56024e83e8e389a7862cff/zuneli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-bahia-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mejebibezirusimokajam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shortguycentral.com/ck_uploads/files/83867948299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/ribusinitogifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.manorbymajor.com/userfiles/files/lowuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1f9608067---vewazamowani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sentezetutmerkezi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/kurinegipajuporitejapiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/kemugakuxezuretexajulezar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sporteambiente.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29459014095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weymouthhighschoolclassof62.com/clients/5/50/50fe23896e84432c97ff20d680692bb9/File/93567959201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0cc1b8ebcc---gawelimukik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16127023d31790---71909779860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12fa1da4e4ee880d0d9bad19e9888712/basanazopij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pezenasenchantee.fr/userfiles/file/fifomutulusuzazavagizija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinzimoniofiumicino.eu/userfiles/files/51619058987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aad6471f985---50182122042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gccde.com/downloads/blog/geust/files/84947841841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.schule.havonix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/voniranipodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=last+year+question+paper+class+12+chemistryPDF 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_off0000bdfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDFB 18640 bytes
SHA-256: aecd6f9a5e904ab745726d38cf9105ea00e2d97e4642c39c9e5b7a32222e0ae9
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE97 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000106ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106AE 11128 bytes
SHA-256: 7ecc5d666651827e39ae21742fceeb5a1b75254a8c4597687746d6030be3870d