Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25389f7d4e74f16a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:33:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 938828cb0bc09380a0112b03c8524470 SHA-1: c8ee062f360d6e2962739c32b8b5e9b27745f34f SHA-256: 25389f7d4e74f16a9dc9dc9d99eee7d251abcd716d2273e44f4b3e67b439f463
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' in one URL indicate a coordinated effort to obscure the final destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ec906cfd1---72240540814.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e0523e52e38f3d0b08e396a9e83a387/vidagamiwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/9722672378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinaxaraes.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fomevutolasofojavel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/16593154184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celcg.pl/uploaded/file/zuzitanijuxudep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v21th28q0vjp1tll8i2d0rgd01/50158195601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1k5cnpfa1d9mpvvskf0kdlaet1/nugijotodafufoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://business-plan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/losel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metapolar.hu/tmp/babiwokolirovomijafuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b05470c4f---tagajuvoliwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be497ea3bdd---xexikurejizezadewekuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebuzz.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pakemefevilosijaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097a45aee49f---49918257730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161316c98db9bc---80830629662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35vghmmibo3m5lh8re04klqfge/zubokufekiwumotedem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72160155070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756cf6ecd59---vulememilidosoduvipod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95vdc77pokq0ipvn05l3lupn0v/70752062511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntsahibfgp.org/hemkunt/userfiles/file/6230740742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160858f5fb3b5f---vasadixededuwewumire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qmaerdo7rciknfipmt908am1p4/4207799451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/miqtca90ggk021gjm5tptkjh51/gedofaxivevulip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyhanool.com/ckupload/files/59634102435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/17132912158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=uud+45+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000e5da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5DA 10308 bytes
SHA-256: 7793b4c4f7e058ebba47da9063685c8024ad16d32af9970a179ab04ccc83bc82
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD56 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011568.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11568 17424 bytes
SHA-256: 2379bd31d805e59d9a6bbd480f827207530282b39ac826ace70886a6dbd9539f