Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25135893f076577e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 01:47:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: be30af5d8374ac6b5b589bba3167f67e SHA-1: bdc416b59a7d12112436a5b1886d386eec750a71 SHA-256: 25135893f076577ea63db6624b5c6017ac47b6295cbcb8c279856df033ec0089
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, a common technique for exploiting vulnerabilities or redirecting users. Multiple heuristics indicate the presence of link farms pointing to potentially compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://pitin-akutsu.com/js/upload/files/97135254831.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bekescsaba.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/zazajanosufimisugir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalaichau.com/files/wagikoligopudev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chablis-gautherin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sugidewirawumosogafokejen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/off9jgnsnstkt2negmma4opdgf/jexutuvegijuwowajenuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/zivus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pustelnik-budownictwo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lomulem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smn69.com/clients/866038/File/82071705823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/rokaguno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a2339e002---70192950384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talleresjpg.es/img/file/95385544390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renknh.com/ckupload/files/nonewebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c53544742ce---rodulotexuxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghozibistore.com/luutru/files/zarabojugetapuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konferencii.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34885440746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/tolorijukiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608933d683238---wobodewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/fivaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kvbm.org/pds/userfiles/files/74483724730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091cf4eb0fd5---24016319791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb7f870b3a---juwepufevilidijokudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c71c3b6895b---49559800763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papianiarch.it/userfiles/files/78296924389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bheilp1dqr888b7n1taj7lj45l/pokemibazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/falaxinosomusoripiwolof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-8/file/84661630492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=preface+to+shakespeare+pdfPDF 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_off0000f653.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF653 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E65 18340 bytes
SHA-256: 32357fcd610383bc16b51e02c9b14d2a044f16f18573cc3ed60a62561fcdecf3
font_02_sfnt_off00013e1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E1F 10568 bytes
SHA-256: b489387799361dddc254adac4b26a617cad73c1db2e939f7fbf9e996157cb578