Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25c1f7b6ccf6302b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-07-14 07:50:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8bdca25c8b1c0e281728e188a4ddc562 SHA-1: 774399802cfb936bf113bb88178a4e84cca486a1 SHA-256: 25c1f7b6ccf6302bcbac6c7ae1bfb50fce979f9a45c2dea41db2f6e60c78d34f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://kildevangen.dk/files/53250560100.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210527_193531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae0279db247---9220985228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40206263f91f3cceb7e463421bdea8b9/xekinetavon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4d10834d7a---jubefakenumewebed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52ce6111233c8e337c992b3faa51cfe7/54446288264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btsis.com/upload/ckfinder/files/10463572234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d57327d04c---96423753968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c198fccbb5b---69373073663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobas24.pl/Upload/file/bivinosogop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/lufoled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10t0nojbuomou165qomnfr8jc3/kazodoxuzolitulawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d799fa59949---40012058338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf9c573863---94208178137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duetsepolno.pl/userfiles/file/fufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eucolait.eu/userfiles/files/92689897122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/xizagado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3621f3c211a59d54750edb228a8d64be/tevubigeboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/bilijode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chonburi33.com/userfiles/file/logedinamawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i3ccsvgk7j27l68l7moqbds8nc/98387226319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proxus.nl/file/vufoziwejipolixun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/lisibenalulimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=divorce+due+to+cheatingPDF 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_off0000fcb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCB2 17532 bytes
SHA-256: 897b2366edd692dc5d786f2513a6b08726b84b81eb27bf8601a523b448bd1d63
font_01_sfnt_off00012ac7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AC7 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 2c4502238310a5736dd7ef2569afbcc13e2599a3cb2b13b047a6d52fe1816dba
font_02_sfnt_off000142c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1