Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 225046e885dee631…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-16 16:23:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f083d3ba32e9586266b635eb0fc6cdd5 SHA-1: 50ffca191cfc4e0fb92e534bcf77ac9915adbc30 SHA-256: 225046e885dee63129b23ebad16327aace55af5ac7f7f174cbb52f9d20b65424
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URI heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=reaction+of+ethane+with+oxygen PDF link annotation
    • http://lamelove-zakryti.cz/userfiles/file/81741353926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/213691e82bd363e7ec93220a5862c69f/97438950833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pushtypathshala.com/demo/aims/files/images/files/bajezadekitajokamipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millionsdiscount.com/mo_images/files/10938421466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139542e9799d---rugupulogefususuvelixaxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaptoys.org/ckeditor/uploads/files/81568215278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/napakisaduwito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espwireless.net/uploads/file/zuxupabatosijodibutekug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phukienbep.net/media/files/fiwopavuwev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neurondevelopment.org/userfiles/file/21750622217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6394bdc49e90c190488c0403f17a7e7/35228400613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indianhairtransplant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63858058066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140422c732da---66414685864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silverk.ru/img/lib/file/95169667826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorapeyzaj.com/userfiles/file/5145864191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sasnowosielski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58261877758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozhencherrymtc.org/userfiles/file/fazopolibezezokigoxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafepiolho.com/uploads/assets/58701534370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbixaydungcantho.com/canthomobile2/public/images/sanpham/files/fuxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corcreation.twbiz.me/data/fckeditor/files/20210914_014642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swhwsolution.it/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/sexogujolaguzoluwazineva.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_off0000bd80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD80 19188 bytes
SHA-256: 0de7688cce57c1f19647b6569191b74779ca113695cea063273ee3ba36b7001a
font_01_sfnt_off0000eef7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEF7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001070e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1070E 10648 bytes
SHA-256: eaedaeaaef3885c5a7d9c4ab95ad2f4f7302d294cf54a1d28595ae4eb9071f0a