Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 025700c8879c53dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 20:03:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7a323c803665df0f85a4de3216312db8 SHA-1: 048bb4f65c958e6fc3776f368d677361c1ac9cfc SHA-256: 025700c8879c53dc7340708f0c02893e607c9cda41d78fb6de7ea917b716cc04
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters in some URLs suggest an attempt to obscure the final destination and track campaign effectiveness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://watosaphotography.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210726_035147.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eotp.info/sites/default/files/fck/file/76355370668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735d5397e55---27015723681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7f5111c373---85692180496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drsuthichai.com/userfiles/files/febexamusirofilat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/gikiraribariworunexavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9712100ee60c05e4193c4d404c1589ee/47681085430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c03302b2302---kopesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stl-log.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/25462871734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc98a6c43178891cd5f73c6f1f8633d7/52843178890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d772607583b9e05cd243cf9dbc7c856/4534975568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/japagodunubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempegaring.com/contents//files/xolisefununubasapiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bladmedyczny24.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a9293bc97671d9e3d9c7222a4895375/40351056939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar.com/contents//files/wolixefomivebemuvizukasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingchengs.com/jingchengs/ckfinder/files/20210630090124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnmrobotics.com/files/files/67446961611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af26744e836b3e6ae947aa787587f74e/vuwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed19d15e8e---fosoperupanexafig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd03899cb6fdb7e4c505d399b1ce9345/50042023297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.info/contents/files/kepoveteva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210601193316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-domodedovo.ru/upload_picture/file/rokurudovomurifagaxeteko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caythuocdangian.net/images/files/94441151767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7a7513f3a0---wuriteso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=halloween+hidden+pictures+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_off0000d4bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4BD 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 804956afac9561fa6d545cfd3bc1f4f0296682313ba9785e80250c1836311f71
font_01_sfnt_off0000edda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDA 18244 bytes
SHA-256: b6a370488794a3c35378ba662607b2dddbbc1cbcb605e23bf2f0a6ec3571a67c
font_02_sfnt_off00011d44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1