Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25922d70d27c8918…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:21:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 477e2e47a3f6100ead15f6d06c0faa67 SHA-1: 29b265f056c36963c33cafbab3e9680adba93165 SHA-256: 25922d70d27c89182154e7599b5a33a64127aa7d1ec60578fa82f36dc205f8e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites. Heuristics indicate these links are used to host other PDF files, suggesting a distribution or redirection mechanism. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7ee4e515a8---60723485811.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lbjvh0lihumpmhmogvqmhum1tg/38234470625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarangroup2.com/contents//files/kojakujedererul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speeddating.lt/speeddating/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wewuzebugebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/wejepatojej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16220290285221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/sopekedagidokixepedix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/gorijezivuvusapuliwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/42294598760b0c6718be8e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7b8287f611---pakekitulogug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c15cf91d925---mibefinisexonavixipit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097ff0f3993c---kajipolokirelaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taitung-house.com/CKEdit/upload/files/bexuton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biotanika.pl/upload/file/wibuvulobabirepijin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/87842447341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1157c9940b6ee4acedfca222529a983/batix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/869b5a7ddf76e2c06c71312dee43609d/kabububipixosule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delphin-restaurant.com/ckfinder/upload/files/demixolasaxukemisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apricomm.com/userData/board/file/23919100498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=mathematics+worksheets+for+grade+1+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_off0000dee7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEE7 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 0eaeef846f967ae16914e73e8cea7def9ea61873a5baa2b464208a16d1fc7541
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8DF 18116 bytes
SHA-256: d9d6d4a49078eea4a301ba99a32495f54ab1aa3a45ab0439229a21f95716a559
font_02_sfnt_off00012787.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12787 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1