Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25bc0b6f1b5fb246…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 22:00:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0bc894457bec28be5393e5a9d26a6660 SHA-1: 546ced4304c526d5dca221d429a86fc69d73a99c SHA-256: 25bc0b6f1b5fb246d89e010369e1008ad7121448848b87462dada96b50ce4e33
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=i+know+why+the+caged+bird+sings+quotes PDF link annotation
    • http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/65484108552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5eb8bdf123---pitugabekelananaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710eb17fd1f---pajopuvepivutuzivizaraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c706e51da3---jaxupozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32eedb63e38d5066d5c8fbc78bb1372d/xisekaluwixuxepama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/fosilanifugidumuvevesep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90e4fbfa5457ea8762babac2bf8a003d/49179347638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc6550f30b---lejefutis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/vujibarozikoguwopuwisibod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/341391af3dafa2d88ccdf6d9c6e507c7/8889940443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/duvixavewonisiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/9889329389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98605ad664729fb251f17ebbc063079a/torep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o2p257d2eonheprqrsrshcamq4/27344782935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716dc20d82e---gobirojewubez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/6769219362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinasoftcore.com/userfiles/file///19714041494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/99141687175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envisystem.com/upload/userfile/files/sulozebabetupiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9623c8dbdab04341db3d0a899c116a30/vinudupimeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb699882732---76408697542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b31b1fe9993---xigik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/polosowij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/90589892948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f2f07b0944---rajevasekogam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/61601704593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1k34dmdnkfes3g6dck5aaio7ed/31781245827.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_off000110d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000128e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128E3 17988 bytes
SHA-256: ad80efe7a04d458adefd6a04a51de0488de825b3ed0790ab57096ae4580b2695
font_02_sfnt_off0001560f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1560F 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 90bed4e5c4ee24ad2f9cbf97e0aeb8a719632b7c97dd7f6aea20e7606b9335bc