Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd52b537d927f402…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 18:16:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 46f7d9a293bc75b7d6b07e89c6d24698 SHA-1: 432dea708b312d9244b56201926d4f02ecdac811 SHA-256: dd52b537d927f40219c97eb10064e797c2d3797f5cb6c73820ff7de71baa335d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further payloads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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 https://hung168.tw/UserFiles/files/654972721.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c54f21da4193ff4c60a4c12044b12123/bevixerekideguxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekarynek.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/36795368531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electronicaindex.nl/images/uploads/39015216962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santabruna.cl/upload/file/53253126374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mensagemcrista.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76089268126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aukuras.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mopimim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yokohama-model.com/userfiles/files/koril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalmicrofinancesummit.org/userfiles/files/31619640873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/misovejatamegonaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientuvibra.com/images/file/82232216918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpinist.store/sribati/editor/uploadfiles/5772338676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biblioteka-koneck.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82955325660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://budapestpainter.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/womesasawafojelexosisuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newegys.egyseg.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nobosetav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-noginsk.ru/upload_picture/file/toratexivomeviravisewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citytrafik.nu/images/file/81280460070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobaths.com/app/webroot/img/files/difadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamakuralosgatos.com/uploads/files/ridabedobijamozojuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbtfilm.com/uploads/files/sifirerabis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurodegranizo.ar/noticias/fckeditor/file/60528643300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e5fd921f1a---15150720688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a15d2c1341f67fbd24d03ac4d2e3d42/mapajelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=the+vertical+diet+pdf+freePDF 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_off0000cb71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB71 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 16e8403155000ca60d24ed660757480ba94d54057516ffab3ca29cb49be66a83
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB08 18516 bytes
SHA-256: fac59178af25419ad42ca26ad2bf9c10fa5f4f138e70b0da161223de650eedcd