Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25691f6b10aa43e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-13 21:53:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f993d4c07839a071e5884f39cde91410 SHA-1: adcfde7704565f5b8c264713b7aa69e2694fab50 SHA-256: 25691f6b10aa43e82d88bacd0132a557fa7c451cd1601bdbd62b83f6f5884a6f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports the phishing and malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=games+to+play+on+app+store PDF link annotation
    • http://edwardlankin.com/clients/86087/File/dekowozupififitonare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/42303756049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d27a9a5fea---sukuxakobalan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u1i0fcfn03jnboujksjv9k5i2k/25555668307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k5839p5ogf4hdnt78ch0hbmktf/minisodude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/poxaropagazepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brno-skoleni.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94960488252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4482a0faf04ad30d1427fffa4673760d/bufuwinegotuferudivigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/vevuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f86c399b3a35ba06d8b5c507ff5f8c70/34718893689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074db3449cc6---47200106065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinhr.eu/images/user/file/72348805255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1c60af04514fee9e9e70ba7c7e30274/lilokalujamipibimenuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apskarota.org/userfiles/file/98436367893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/185e249fc12807f1f44faaea66f5c2b0/48471421804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca5ee349f5---86023890425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071fe5d35377---26676060936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/rikosepudevumubinav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbf410af6e---67316851541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcrainhwy.com/uploads/files/96208155119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b18f42897d8fff35d04e0ae75f586356/nawovamutoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwvictory.com/uploads/files/muvavatojifafizikiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607afff8e18cf---folulipiwezigunirut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc0f9d05ab5---24024382363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turar-mussin.com/userfiles/File/99866308237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coinproject.com/userfiles/image/file/juwiwago.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_off0000f31a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF31A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B31 10476 bytes
SHA-256: c95568f8d2973673de7654d251da1e9c56c85a10e51c8ab4f2be26573dfd4961
font_02_sfnt_off0001230b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1230B 16964 bytes
SHA-256: 486237f3b877928351aa3177b4a9ee4ef1d29a37f8bf1f3564b0286e4065277e