Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 004e25216de39f0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-08-08 16:59:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 547b4b9b966f5fab202a73cb888cab0c SHA-1: 49bc2f875fc418ebb26b00bf3ecdfce3e4323561 SHA-256: 004e25216de39f0ffb70485c4005f7a851eff79819b66b1430b3b9f36cb07873
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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 http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/80832469233.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://stadion-nsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jezifabazunisijunejuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/286f94b670004c1710ad9fe11534bdab/gipojujudemefaxoropes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stattus.com/assets/file/kotoxosaxonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehigh86.com/clients/13680/File/zanurixubiruzulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9a6a416a92---jisigipaxujinoveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.sk/upload/files/mavoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aranykoronakft.hu/userfiles/file/40284314590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carrentchiengmai.com/files/61741334926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c6b57401af---boramazuxibewewulox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otartufo.com/ckfinder/tartufofiles/files/70894087617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kesifveotesi.com/files/69392596997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a742b5e0f---xikibumunufubovaborosib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g5tpgtvij0aqdffh0ssg05h4hf/4481917299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2503d48c153b1ca3fd84fce3cacf573b/simosonumobak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b969ec337a3---76679494473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belovosushi.ru/files/64063219875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/2106101847166726101a18b3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markfarolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jexawovune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9b1b0cd447abbcee897a1f49b3713c4/95701942271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveforlungs.com/clients/a/a9/a9a80f3a93b7553e0860ec1960497db0/File/72149946576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khacdautron.com/Images_upload/files/27064470825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhihoangvinh.com/uploads/userfiles/file/36787321492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/xafidawune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-6/file/74827185193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/10243318027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+get+a+vendor%27s+license+in+californiaPDF 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_off000107ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107FF 17248 bytes
SHA-256: f315d1a6e0190e51136c38689c2636c717bc0fe6f4ad57dcb43a13adf17724ca
font_01_sfnt_off000134e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134E8 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 24c4c1883e20d0be25af0bc5b36b3a35e389db21ed9afcd7a9284d2f00c2af3c
font_02_sfnt_off00014de5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14DE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1