Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 225d26deea65190b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-07-06 23:20:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 5b5837e1167b95d982c5a06cd44b01bf SHA-1: 4495d4098dd1633383ab401c763e6aeb8674d712 SHA-256: 225d26deea65190b6d1ae68ca457e813feb963921480febff70529bc130c7f7e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mhktl753bj34hh3gghngo6cbfc/didupozipupofebojibezifa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0a2b001f68---gapizujokatalakazewukofob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insureacompany.com/userfiles/file/3637738536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bmw-zona.ru/uploads/file/24681307680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/24758459687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ceda16705---77593864436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799cf566cdf---tigiwezopupebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/16158787977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26b6eafa982f9e9480f4012b533fb184/norirasojuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2a0534009e---tafavuruxusekuxamep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e5f4962b97---bajosobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/images/blog//file/73810898484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinnaduraflex.com/uploads/files/zanasosipirixitiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080484974fe9---lujiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n22h3l4j2il1cu6qc1optaqdg2/49121262283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msamericapageant.com/clients/873634/File/nogixad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5o6d0h9bq65ct5ps2sc7rprj5r/gadalurizonunudogexizab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948a03cb645---pikarut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://519pf.com/userfiles/files/xipipotobanupuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087024d6656d---wefijunobemutebavozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sir4dqca4knkuo8g50poc9psm0/zasip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escqatar.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/78501922350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2cbff301c---pamediminizozoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2p639fiutjk67g862mce4afhdd/81852478552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=manual+without+clutchPDF 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_off0000fac8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAC8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000112df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112DF 10104 bytes
SHA-256: a7f4d6d83ed17f329fe81b926b3729ae8361c76d0e6c655c4b297c48f5850d1e
font_02_sfnt_off0001295d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1295D 16544 bytes
SHA-256: fcbe7647b87e408842317df79129d2109f9d4080023b7faf7f1c1415add555e8