Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe52e8928f660ee0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:23:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f587182bc1c48fd94c1928e7ee6463f5 SHA-1: e1bc418810a4a5e5688622f7fc953a244d6bde17 SHA-256: fe52e8928f660ee0c1021005f6882452dbe990210a5298ab64a8ac29efe731fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a malicious PDF detected by ClamAV and ML classifiers, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, redirecting users to various compromised websites and potentially disposable hosting domains, likely for phishing or scam purposes. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=principles+of+operant+conditioning
    • http://tragiaocolamsapa.com/userfiles/image/file/43979319936.pdf
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1pmi30ld5b4ul6siu6citqo0j6/xiwowa.pdf
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/lalavesubesi.pdf
    • http://zovsh.com/Uploadfiles/files/98855417551.pdf
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607030d3f17e4---sapalenotomemut.pdf
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/dasezoz.pdf
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f42466db93---nupuwuxuvamu.pdf
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983f5fd0773---xamobitapitutodosojifug.pdf
    • http://tipsclubcr.com/campannas/file/disatolijurirovabowuwi.pdf
    • https://profipreklady.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4317786185.pdf
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e5f02e59c5---nedamukexibexigasotugutot.pdf
    • http://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/68429587985.pdf
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1c6a14a36---96399205665.pdf
    • https://www.stjohnhomelessshelter.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f95738bd97e6eee49b278bf6c8fac35/8984462947.pdf
    • http://emannsltd.com/userfiles/4601211387.pdf
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ln6lqrree845mcoejl3ds4gcs6/95016439848.pdf
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2823e8f82c---gedewasozixuf.pdf
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b165255b8a---garinolu.pdf
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45034b6f90c74686e044b879cc31c379/rebikatarewu.pdf
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/matefudefasinanoxunolib.pdf
    • http://rydelko.pl/userfiles/file/9113331372.pdf
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3482397578---86761969265.pdf
    • http://sam-global.info/files/file/dakirigoweturiwad.pdf
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75e2aeebaf6f3aac63c90bbdb6069886/10444868246.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00014d8e.bin
8c12fbf757f886c38ccdada8bec7daea1f01e42fa3b64c3469996e01e248e486
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D8E 17300 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00017ad1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17AD1 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000192e8.bin
8d6ec2eb48a60ac240d424516a99e95a81c1e756486dedc675fa6316de74a28f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x192E8 10796 bytes