Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25844585d2454a12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 15:43:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 02bc7fd2e914acede6b9124d9aba0b1e SHA-1: 0889916e25df770bb5e79df6f6619ccb241a64ce SHA-256: 25844585d2454a12ca01164e1686e5980afcfaea8b6f09ffc7f8253943204b3c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains an image-based screenshot designed to trick users into interacting with embedded links. Multiple URLs point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a distribution mechanism for further malicious content or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a52215dfb8848a3e2606bd83544310f/pobupozawikogamirugovijak.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5037021d4ae99104f2d46b165ece992/405400427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uppersanduskyrotary.com/cms/files/File/4744743068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iohrp.org/f_files/files/21056687198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serka.com/serka/upload/files/tefipibaridozonisopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e692c3ab57246a2167e9cf68f1cb6011/84569178855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/sifozatabalukig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://branchennachweis.eu/userfiles/file/xulofov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161361ed218ef0---pimikiruzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenbrier101.com/userimages/33076315731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1careglobal.com/upload/files/29129959241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161384727aadf8---mubexetovope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-0898.com/userfiles/file/20210909130214_4ww5xv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--49st2et51duvk.com/upload/files/tavinexej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leise.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93093198728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nordavril.com/userfiles/file/xurinemuxodofatofabafow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszskiba.com/userfiles/file/jumanobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findusafranchise.com/files/files/ruwisaduzas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muaah.ca/userfiles/files/febizewub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8ojc23hq034i5h95ee9atsk26/fopifiguku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuni.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/wapasovibadoruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seteo-dechets.com/images/file/riwanubipudufemubuzufod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hf23ffe5iruk9c9rrohd9oraa7/87632492690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=gta+3+all+cheat+codes+for+pcPDF 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_off0000b0e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0E7 14252 bytes
SHA-256: 7b227a7c504cd14acd86778813ef9d448b5ca98f29edb7f3565439ea23d26148
font_01_sfnt_off0000d43e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD43E 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 949962ae3b9179c69391da7fcdad609149b829c54eb00170c7460d6d8e8270ea
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED23 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1