Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d25614f984c71d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 05:36:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f95e692ef0eae7b33ee40db81ebb487e SHA-1: cbab84ac47bc21a1e51ee6c55a0c59baebd08c1d SHA-256: 0d25614f984c71d0d686246c0254b4e577626729c33b3f7ac06fb5008511e946
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations. This behavior is characteristic of a link farm used to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing attacks. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/680e56c89740757c5301494f6004e7e1/32550598766.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3facc8e920cf490fb0cfca9088c965a7/xebijugixuporo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a46b786ab2d---73913215187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9evhm4nfl4b6s5qc8htvhbbmks/79798891705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esperanzadeavila.com/fotos/file/tekipozag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tailormade-sales-marketing.com/userfiles/file/33002409213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///xikexomoviluwowusetuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/osexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbsinternationalschool.org/sbsisnew/userfiles/file/41114338434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/65112466928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornerstonelaw.eu/userfiles//file/54164676925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b1bae490f---gareruzinobafeluke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160857a2154e9a---85071369281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbe22cacaba---89238928608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/dusekuxelevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/35031706602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608002d4b1594---64169798527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinamakina.com/userfiles/file/83355395854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e20ea2ac6---jabixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210622201022_rx958y.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0l7rnfmho6lngq1c86qi5q3hb7/27573570947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frezerovka.by/images/fxeditor/file/14977256304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=climbing+the+leaning+tower+of+pisaPDF 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_off0000f9c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9C3 18284 bytes
SHA-256: bf5481f6e17041d91fb4b91f10dba98f7033de03392f901768d4a31e550f2caf
font_01_sfnt_off0001284b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1284B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014062.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14062 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 92ecb239720377e6dc984197aa23054639060e26cc43a87f7406cbb10783f2e4