Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25401ff890d86e7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:48:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 312d6bc63761561c476dd7998407bedc SHA-1: b333d25dc0e80735501091d73b8c74b5829c12f5 SHA-256: 25401ff890d86e7d17620f2c5bebb4d758c7e20064eb2e3f2df5c28bee4585d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the detection as a phishing/trojan variant implies an intent to deliver a secondary payload or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 http://deckdreams.ca/clients/3/34/34055ef41782f8f15ebf372c1e39ecad/File/76805074398.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://trickapotisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bopiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2974c4702acb5168f4c0a76a22e6f8cd/vafidewixasatifaxuzixatud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/4541242059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rogersdesignhouse.com/uploads/files/50643582916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pvib5tau24ibd257r3c4i0edn6/xuxoxurujovojotilojoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04434d05fc90f6ff8bfe601b0362e33c/bufilixan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iehyun.com/editorupload/file/pexoparo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcadia6465.com/clients/f/fc/fcac8d81e62e7f23ed02b02243def538/File/89033348726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevvalturizm.com/rsm/files/31173813069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd19debe3c---tomapukovisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hqshop24.com/userfiles/file/36234265111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5081eb5ed02dd3841809027ed56783a5/lazugabawopiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///dokurajokorexunotefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservices.com/uploads/files/53846563777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adacu.org/userfiles/file/20210716134503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bd13059f9c9489b746ade0bff3d5208/30452230216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/userfiles/file/fixipitenotikinemirosix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hb6q9iu225lla7nrbm4rk3h5k5/58553925013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatacorp.com/upload/files/63758215066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dccde6962b9672dcd943b1d0ccacd1ae/77187924678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ia0nfmjlqt581umj30d0lnc04f/88279342883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szymonadamczyk.pl/uploads/fck/file/23425392260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=radiation+detection+instruments+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_off0000f352.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF352 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 4c5fe6689ec063b89e6c5a7aa48083dfb70c7c66edd6d1427a7a6499408be880
font_01_sfnt_off00010c74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C74 17812 bytes
SHA-256: 23cab0af385f80f07e3c4512229c79246ac859ad200c40103e2592515f419e70
font_02_sfnt_off00013adc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ADC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1