Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25675eb7f6d8188b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 02:44:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 16d1c8556368816b67c7aa32adc56b99 SHA-1: 936c55a662fcc84b397aa655513350d57bb5b4a2 SHA-256: 25675eb7f6d8188b929da22de725c1ba68d27aa5e6a85812e52ed240ef1c66a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability for client execution. The file functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites, consistent with a spearphishing attachment delivery method.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed1a8b82724717123f96bfde15f4078e/besanedexobux.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/972153c2884c52f664a58d0c9293390b/46807772161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf5738a53b---38898982525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074bcc91ddb8---xagojakazuzutaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80652974917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hirurgija.me//files/56505387629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/nonizonuzobonugugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f06c1b42565ceb04a85f413bf496b342/69685932717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/14263084826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089b1a482c87---luninuzajebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushichoice.com/uploads/files/wuxusaturaxawuruxadumik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb79be0980---50404180102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/tufowarot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badoza.net/userfiles/file/suguvove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1d43c3fcf3---15879886011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/vatebugatisiduko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/nodufaxojujuwogejadavukaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqfratrr5644o49kht2e8oued5/48776173099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085aa9334b1e---mesiwuzofiwidovepazuteju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5vmgtlj478c8kocm6fgtpldb0/86237069916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4nkt02va58js5i79tgliakb6p4/95257594907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701f4c8f6c1---donizurimifatamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0dc7b26271ac3a9c12a33eab9ac59ea/69498346856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i0058cnrtgc3lu4tc7pj4kbkof/lufibunapekifisewapokuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/beguxusumixazusad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=stages+of+composting+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_off0000fb8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB8A 17308 bytes
SHA-256: 57840ce7f8bf1a3b4048193893f0f49cadd81d3a6a9685b352f27e9ae5c1fa40
font_01_sfnt_off000128ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000140c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140C5 10892 bytes
SHA-256: f2db23c8047e7c18519dc9b734f81eaf3b7d61bc95ddf84a008f7472a0ed5cee