Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25192397f7e48688…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.5 KB Created: 2021-07-08 07:03:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 94ab6352fcdb755f6504b5fa5b65e8d9 SHA-1: 1ba873bb84a716957a4ff3ee55109093530a505a SHA-256: 25192397f7e48688f3596cb29f16a6540759b9ad339ffdd50c7dc0d7203a51d7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing and potential trojan threat. It contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URIs and link farms strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=growth+and+development+in+economics+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/673daip5m67uvhemp3tgbjqbi5/nelogofide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/pugatuxugenikozugifot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f89c85497---11730326816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahs1966.net/clients/f/f9/f93f52488d971b5f2372adc2bdb16541/File/jugogikowolerulemipame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cmrgol9p0s7vvenn8nk3mtlsm8/limabogiwizuzefimasen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41f81f76b3d5f0bca71b6008c05cf485/xizil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letresorellebio.it/userfiles/files/regex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sutphinsgermanshepherds.com/clients/21958/File/bomupeziwalokidug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081848e24e6a---41707557626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e78d6ba104fe2d6cb7ae6d276c2a0ae/92372063313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithatkuongthinh.com/uploads/files/95335199809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexkarvan.com/cache/fck_files/file/82699143875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d23d485b64c---ripipumuvewenegezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/zoteneguxagolefuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/87737758423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veivel.com/userfiles/file/93391917437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltssinternational.com/res/wysiwyg/file/guwixix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiquim.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27071873547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jjiigp39joskh7pjdhfg767f9j/34223126784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce6e526418---wuxujatifodowewozezib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giustofiori.it/file/nebanun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sambometal.com/dataroom/file/zagineveduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pu9afn6q2i51n5ailp4kq3fht0/gorekaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/gejonimaruxifegana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/gopapenijepujagagabedaz.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_off00010d14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D14 17500 bytes
SHA-256: e516797efabdc31247cb66e86f3ea96d756de450a6deaa27caef401cd19b4141
font_01_sfnt_off00013ab5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AB5 11076 bytes
SHA-256: 1c392abcce875852307f9439b8961d15295b521d4ce4f603a6c3d17a568ba11d
font_02_sfnt_off00015460.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15460 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1