Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d52a9b4affcf6b79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-09-11 02:26:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: fbed15bca059eab13ffe5de4fef6b764 SHA-1: e4203543511428d83abfbaf39de6c9204a39aaf9 SHA-256: d52a9b4affcf6b798923274ac2373e36a9ac7af06c3e0ec5e0028761b90f2422
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://bagliodeimille.it/userfiles/files/34091242664.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://saipanbooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_54806946BA40E3D3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shop-exclusive.cz/userfiles/file/bubatitafubidadudejos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161328ec29512f---64714838601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rpsbchamber.org/editorData/file/zusowuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/redarigegepujebeval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20cf3da99d292beeeda4d02d01fcb72f/xorelejexuvedowaduno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/2574321843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamorenj.com/userfiles/file/25631455536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a22bf7f4c9---93331837958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockbond-aac.com/id-admin/fckImages/file/29183598311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/vumokefebadun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/010a1ural8kgnj9gf0l9gj3nqf/32938991397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/717606059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotokeramika.bg/userfiles/file/46170142513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bcce99b84b---nakewurisuzanulej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81075960383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130047b25813---wivemesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodmax.ru/i/files/papulumuxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.com/images/upload/File/luwit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koyomisushi.com/uploads/files/30495601031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estatecambodia.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/bimasosovixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=set+my+ringtonesPDF link annotation
    • https://tes-sys.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/20210906/16308823978794.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_off0000c91a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC91A 10432 bytes
SHA-256: c2734a3f1160327af2dd2fd07521505fe1b1cac6c47a429a3dbab14d00d9321b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D1 17896 bytes
SHA-256: 03e375b18cd1e0a86194598aa81455a859af74e0f2e644d831f4922cdec5db09