Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0825800530d37db4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 10:47:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d8bef026816a9afe355517fa277191c5 SHA-1: f9d6c8e5f2a2bd6b8ebb6fc22863d18558ec13b9 SHA-256: 0825800530d37db4b9a09139a5a535401aa3813ae08de99ff1cbcf86a6f69b8c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's used to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of multiple links on disposable or compromised hosting reinforces its role as a distribution or redirection mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9838

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://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab0181af22---49699806815.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef84a53a3b---84269021829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e825498127---weremubasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faxik.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73624208721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dgaspcsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xejunaxikuvemoxalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3e5b397c8---49840027808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/6165829328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c32032d1765---kiworobidifaridigora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc1d397ce0---jukazudapufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/89175167793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nf7fm1mbhljqt1d5boavqtg347/31639901839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc4f87868f9---zamegipurevezomada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609069f174d37---2828781466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2d9a72e8f062c15651ab884dfaf9beb/35388664856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oticonshop.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46551138957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20d4ecdfcd0b7d8a74c6c987cb0e770e/zedamawowonozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cabsfromheathrow.com/userfiles/file/kurodilapebewoxomasuxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/131d14853cc83d463e6f722ab16a0af7/94384081327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3cae7cd12dbf4a284ef5c5ef5efa404/mobuzifuzumivatavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationshield.ae/userfiles/files/gunupijes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/077c09b18da9fd7987d3760ebc2a89a0/27858499354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a140487513f---welos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=best+birthday+wishes+for+brother+funnyPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00019d68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19D68 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001b57a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B57A 17836 bytes
SHA-256: 25a3e661fa55f24a18820c26597d527e4307e937f7565c2b30961f4c839216a9
font_02_sfnt_off0001e3e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E3E6 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 897e0e768592305007e0d2d43bc09b1968247835824274bb9d6f33a6b6cfd939
font_03_sfnt_off0001fd2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FD2C 17596 bytes
SHA-256: 30ebe1c4e7cf52d880c0218a3c546f0eccc4c15c98be0ede4806b1fa6bedc15c