Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e52357aebe510f9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.3 KB Created: 2021-08-16 22:21:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9115cdeac88a428f74fc4a78abd043a6 SHA-1: c0df3b9c2e9b5e4bc62003933acce1d71585f87d SHA-256: e52357aebe510f9bc11a3daff574c0e48d1b9277ec970fc5ae1ea33446841b80
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely intended to trick users into downloading a malicious payload. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cadeca49a114b7a1f4a9d8620bc47fd/52912501356.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/tavuludotewejenegivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubmaniacr.com/campannas/file/gurowupiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p45stmu26i8bm7ereuuj18daa3/30420288948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3efc8a2c9e---29160799633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/27265746181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/lepejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc0bf55309e7ee12c7a16b006e877dd8/lixoxunodar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0d1922d602---wijuvesamumixujibunagog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teenmag.cz/userfiles/file/zuxilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a392e9da9---77747767759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rutherford58.com/clients/5/5b/5b2824e44de76337c32dfcbc3ee6dba3/File/sevepokubezimunixapaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/kepefevijufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruntbudowa.pl/files/file/24648297954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmrivestimenti.com/userfiles/files/butarubawed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbpcpentecostalchurch.com/clients/65183/File/36987735863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8aeeec083b---19244507407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f91dfc0fe4c---zazuredatamubobajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kqcme.yiaiwang.com.cn/upload/files/73392552505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/sugoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ktoj7fnbmn9jac7pp1g5fe745e/pizaduzituxunekose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ildiko-szepsegszalon.hu/userfiles/file/semapedaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/632f335d249c4b1c9513a711172b0aa6/60141939677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stollerco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/ramoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bankubezpieczen.pl/userfiles/file/19413318498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=examen+del+capitulo+2b+answer+keyPDF 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_off00014573.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14573 18108 bytes
SHA-256: 3f7a2caa4a71d56bf101e8236e78456e7df6bbddc477603616d40976386b6f4c
font_01_sfnt_off00017479.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17479 11412 bytes
SHA-256: 53a202443f7f5a2ea82a99c8fc6210e17e2d5846b6ba06034421e1f34a320839
font_02_sfnt_off00018f43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18F43 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1