Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c52bdffb20487d6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-07-06 20:02:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7158da600d7b497718b3a60c49e08d47 SHA-1: ae31ab8067001854498f32dde7a1bf305b41a4ce SHA-256: c52bdffb20487d6a62d94cc58181cba4369d181b8f3cfc0f664e1430530d5afe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The presence of external URIs and link farms on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=automatic+control+systems+kuo PDF link annotation
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b117e001d65---55296012553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2d2b5e166c---fovefizeredovemigeradulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f729c7e1736b2109c3d4b4d91561a02/mudinidabuwivur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b60cf5917cf95a0dc34fd7d0aaebd75/sudegopenifisupotuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heureka-cz.eu/files/gutimatulibof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chineseclothingonline.net/File/xavepurubivudomikasipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n26c6pishckum9iidok3ij30s3/gipuluduwuzut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c1cf3606df---kerufuwarivixujis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebestpearsonfamily.com/clients/e/e6/e6a49a9b6fa3fb0349b1957bd02e8b5b/File/vibopapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da59cd2039e8d4ece5fde24550197188/92431221341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1d3d005817---55961607019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba36ef65909---29698548949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b802d19bc2f---47481800380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e1e7c6d75ce1598d01626785c6394cb/62869070112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff091074b36b454566cd88af76a7dbb2/88061797223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca15977fc1---73563869751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210619164606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/pepabipobajil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cec511f3f9---suxopurenezokadadafuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca6b1adad4---fanalipopukifokuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/kitupotobatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082243896302---46089967718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160879875b8808---batupipedatapuxivutubeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efd1387a3dbda389ba35c6c468b9b64d/rudonetezejaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hrmconsulting.biz/upload/files/43425886764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e8c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8C0 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 731848fd95f3985e71999541c33e47e60254963edb4c837d1a994ed5d883265c
font_01_sfnt_off00010145.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10145 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 22a6b94b33157f7803a55bd291264694a8f510094e5417b8b6765d5b18855591
font_02_sfnt_off00012e22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1