Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 225c82f5431880db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 04:50:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 626bea374fae3df9bf3fdaadd209f4d1 SHA-1: 870b70046fce8582f3bcc0018c5e2d093a07091d SHA-256: 225c82f5431880db98377a7f118518bab977f4fd16500dfacc8c9c3229bff1e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure victims to external sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=courtship+of+stewie%27s+father
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db043040600e55ae19c879c34884e603/45979723074.pdf
    • http://kojeneckezbozi.eu/userfiles/file/10031144097.pdf
    • http://marasintl.com/public/ckfinderuploads/files/92062201200.pdf
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081401bc42d5---xerimu.pdf
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1d057efc91586eb13eed075a628b1db/54374059209.pdf
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e61c05f142c6d694b21fb5b03051cf8/18063740653.pdf
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c402e4c6f2313ca0661cc640f7b98f5e/2307293025.pdf
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/ronimezerigedesijun.pdf
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0989a50655b52fb5bebca7084276abf8/volorerideseval.pdf
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9101879fc0---mologek.pdf
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/645b3db514d4b5e1be47828ba6c8dd93/donidig.pdf
    • https://living-stone.lu/userfiles/files/79448329448.pdf
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f42219d36a4329dc59561ff1e6481b9/94389990284.pdf
    • http://salon-urody-bellis.pl/images/file/71004812086.pdf
    • https://local-atlas.ru/userfiles/files/31252399731.pdf
    • https://davidfauquemberg.com/home/fauquemb/david/bbdg_site/userfiles/file/tefedawidesezepup.pdf
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071be23c61dc---14857826073.pdf
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/vunufasaliva.pdf
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9a08732e86---57814037027.pdf
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aca75d14d21872f9bf490411b0d4a321/5695595159.pdf
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b7f3d59d97---viluvizezamaxurimemi.pdf
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c208e1a15b736bc9303a4d068d713bae/44410262971.pdf
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2trjdddpsdm3rabku6s9bs6bki/61339270485.pdf
    • http://guides2alpes.org/uploads/file/37033277110.pdf
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc0a3c0d89---22375364373.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb79.bin
44dc1270793422ed57c68a7d899ddf30e7d3ec5e9dabd7622b3e786c3c143379
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB79 10556 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000113e1.bin
51c19095c321ebc43b6eaa35083396283da4d2c239b4a6de59de960a9cab12db
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113E1 17780 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001417b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1417B 16792 bytes