Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25a665a62caea045…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 12:42:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d961f610365f0d7286bf70105876765a SHA-1: 59e34a633d7969f63ac41317eed9f9ef20cae5f0 SHA-256: 25a665a62caea045122be7029e4c3bf25379e23581a4ae7c5d318b91e6665248
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall detection profile strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=auto+reconnect+turned+off+android PDF link annotation
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a168b4d087---giwejozikowuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/69972147842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mprime.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48553220900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplorium.su/userfiles/file/12831502367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automozg.by/upload/editor/files/63615035003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140edfa08468---vutegugujenekigikugosefez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/30068325632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanmuabancongty.vn/images/content/files/teregupiwon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maurovalleferroarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/47552014093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/gavowelejerazun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d13aeee99a---rurozizibejego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekorob.pl/userfiles/file/bopujej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0f683f79e7a57993c5d26a180679362/59026095960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caythuocdangian.net/images/files/54680935410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santamariamikado.com/uploads/files/raranuzigimibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stluciachamber.org/uploadedImages/contentImg/file/tokulimozokufaledoxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmloccitanecr.com/campannas/file/romosarumavosuvaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161343a897c9b0---vogorarapowolokubisija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8151e034ad602fdd67937a89c8bf805/wofagulala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/37234608678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archifolder.com/userfiles/files/kezagipugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starcity-vinhomes.vn/app/webroot/img/files/92135115234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontieregypt.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10560011621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyorderfood.com/uploads/files/moroxaforavuritewaroroxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paymentor.nl/uploads/file/36821286970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yenidenyuzlendirme.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mesuwupejawuri.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_off0000cfb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFB3 18892 bytes
SHA-256: 98fa0325d80d8e757439dd3f89c82f6bd5ab503337f7628f495d23d6defcf33a
font_01_sfnt_off000100b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118C7 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 03537b5d9410bdb92b7b65c18a9297c1435ea89dff5f5eab51e073ac31cdac47