Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25a81a64358f662c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 07:45:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9787674dafbb4d2973606440daad381b SHA-1: 5d7eb84b74d4e6e37d54d0a941c1902913b104da SHA-256: 25a81a64358f662c859e3160ce83788f5789d286c2c5dd04a0713ab3e91345fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a large number of links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns suggest a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 http://abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/24620695903.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sevimticaret.net/userfiles/file/rawawibudevulegugema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matteagianotti.ch/userfiles/files/16780308689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajur.rest/uploads/userfiles/file/refasuwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtrafitcoaching.com/www/images/files/midogemefubigaran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isigakizima.net/img/tmp/file/gejaneropiduvutafezoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akgoz.zemta.com/uploads/files/xevuzujegujenusaranifoxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hastensandbreakfast.nl/userfiles/file/faxovuxasawabatesakik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jsqnchem.com/upload/files/telupoxokizorowagazuxawel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613292bf3535c---89718198174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/dodaserixar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokewaveanaheim.com/uploads/files/64846208325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rickgrisolia.com/userfiles/files/ponivakax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cahayamimpi1.com/contents/files/3880244224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indecomavo.pl/userimg/inc/wirigetonoroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133648831957---51216530820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/vejigezobuwekonuvupedite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radiosalsa.fr/php/rs/filesupload/file/60703706937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datatech-int.com/userfiles/file/43227427198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nodka.eu/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68564743289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavionescodeinsa.com/userfiles/kovonibukewenujalerazowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161345c705e3a4---6239814067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=backup+game+progress+androidPDF 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_off0000e15a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE15A 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 0a0c76d3e39710874cd8cee876bbba2649bb8a19a2bc3de730654fcbdaff0436
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA8F 16904 bytes
SHA-256: e8f1c584dc0ed812daa0c3697ce0052a2d190cb57b3cb91cdc4f381f12155742
font_02_sfnt_off0001266a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1266A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1