Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 105d25010ad3cfee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.6 KB Created: 2021-07-08 07:58:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 7a0388158a8908f89edf48d1159710c4 SHA-1: dd0b676c3508931ed628cb3c5f299b4bcc1ff1f2 SHA-256: 105d25010ad3cfee78e14f2fca6482e94ce5d18572c972eeb1235413774bbcf8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this PDF is used as a lure, likely for phishing or to deliver a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://tmtteks.com/files/25885800138.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ace27bc97999b752ebd9f0db4237e644/nifinoniwaritizugoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f52c5328a0---zaduwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freehajjandumrah.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/59732340658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puppometalli.eu/file/dudegomejitibinaperufin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d16f4c25006b5a8495c8c1ee7d8c6bb7/nufojodewedeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3cfa43fdb32e8d0876adce833579541/wewivuserogakomufopaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s73h1mcmf4ea8u11psps1afq74/vexirizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0oghoj36n96mbqltrthnbhpos5/71320340928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021052519192996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce0e1e20528---jobumavalebamifaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jga8d3k547ps215vf9jrima463/82725469632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dadd46d45ca---kevifakabeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074139e1b5ee---29530991429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41780137382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b66ecb5afae---27101421641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leinerpakgelatine.com/survey/userfiles/files/28853385705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a56f70379---67658771782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2247fc500e53984c4b0873df52c2cdfb/wuwonerix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computergramm.com/userfiles/file/wawejokuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b18177c37---xonuviwuwivemigiwumanapub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9810e68d989169ec0f06dbff14993a18/tenisitomegiseker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mojahotels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90027887500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=twilight+temple+guidePDF 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_off00010de1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DE1 17888 bytes
SHA-256: 9434e075b5baf5166b77c018367e7b4dc6996aff515f0a49a3249259bd604fe4
font_01_sfnt_off00013cbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CBD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000154d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154D4 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 096ecd9e57a6c2e87544214c9984bdac3164c2290771a19f1819cdc8db435439