Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25044ca1da57fda7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:13:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: be9f1b3d2ac3bdea7b22af42745c9043 SHA-1: e48df4a35342f32332f18f4c39dbef0b5055a8a1 SHA-256: 25044ca1da57fda799fd5caa8cd27c4366c5313913acef19a9fcdaa624f5c4a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links suggests an attempt to leverage these for malicious redirection or hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://ecosolar-energy.com/piceditor/file/85295124436.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a936b1f1e0---tixer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://execdentalclinic.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59633420516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b45bb469ad5---50304674210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----itbbfrdrdbd4bgy6gi.xn--p1ai/webroot/files/files/luzunawanifajuxameg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ded419634ceea7c0b5646cd8ed3b251/pewunuxikomijuxodofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://densayhongngoai.com/uploads/userfiles/file/73495249984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/jakexixumexipafotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeriadevita.it/userfiles/files/xiwuzemafaliguvijubopato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2318b6963d1673cc5d8b0704992b6db2/8248453196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/69683091952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aab35627072---62313758340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjengo.org/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/dideg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ea0235b5c7---melukuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tischtennis-kiel.de/images/file/valifapolotugepupajov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b11a3000a84---38683584665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b8d6681afc4dee09919d1ce063bd715/4853690108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4a05c9a1d77a862191a8da477b59663/xitesuwokije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmoretv.com/userfiles/korotejomep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinniescustoms.com/userfiles/files/kegojaxadimabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce4e6d4e72---83213860491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=gram+positive+bacteria+stain+pinkPDF link annotation
    • http://mustang.tom.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36406268015.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_off000121bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121BC 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 85773488f0134bca7ede2105ecbc7887abcb0400e5d4ab475cb1a06e54b24a30
font_01_sfnt_off00013a94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A94 18932 bytes
SHA-256: 55e6f63b3875021a9d94f07ea463a7734c137718cf7c116100dddaf6c82a95fd
font_02_sfnt_off00016b8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B8D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1