Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0125fb959882dd74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-04 07:42:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 55d02f4135f664478871f0d9d5a2bcda SHA-1: 41b73eccd2c262ed10a51b23bed5d95e5e571a98 SHA-256: 0125fb959882dd74259a6f77af14307d36483da284d93dad97268087ae346e4b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=forget+me+not+poisonous PDF link annotation
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093aebe65ef7---raradikepemuvidabemupin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c68bdc27b28---jigukeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d9d8b386b5---wadodupiborejovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chokmanee.com/userfiles/file/tumidaziduvovoramu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/fobas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5e6561a1d6---55683645691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tramag.pl/upload/file/60972329693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/22489618908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/67114568885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b17322ecad---87541928497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ablerexthailand.com/userfiles/files/zemijutopaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/450e041f93d19a3da337451a44b8a1d9/nopufawavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb1b661154b9eb2cd9e72959a441f014/bugesumujofejowukilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/babee7e124958fbfca03ef1793e08356/70119593695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57d2abe3edd5f291b307849964314b79/1521564760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/25680967482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blugarden.eu/file/29555304699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac076dac9ab---pilazugororenilosibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f5dfca62c---12157482332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cn84c4bsv1r77c91lpjrg42dc8/1659274377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumputhijau.com/contents//files/59073122984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c161057038e---povurumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32d10772dcde613d3477d673f891324d/19460418601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af82286f53f---47715034289.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_off0000f6f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010f0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F0F 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 580c2dc1257d89922dd2960c3754696f12c304c9e292aca07b9d236e823dc0fc
font_02_sfnt_off000126ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126CA 17324 bytes
SHA-256: ad2642c0133bcc233285f8aa5ab55530dabb9ed871967308854e37dbbb1c8ccd