Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25c97afd933130dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 18:42:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 3e9b793eb34ed8fba5810f7a44c113a5 SHA-1: 00eee55c9147064fdbf7f739f4da3569de76cf08 SHA-256: 25c97afd933130dd52eb1a0764554eedcdd531226190652990d36539be9c25ee
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic further suggests a phishing or tech-support scam pretext, aiming to trick users into visiting these URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+shadow+society+book+2 PDF link annotation
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076cba455fb2---vofinejabelokilifigora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160964257a9191---xaginalunozadamalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837d3715c53---goxefuges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/33522420995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/8627135492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copy2d.com/ftp/image/file/88965543449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e19d0a8464---romitusasametutixusex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddenforrest.net/clients/76790/File/sukufexuluja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097d05764fef---tefoladudawusunowape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burchiellati.com./file_fck/file/84496836298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5oapdq1ehhum7hvt78fs2bfmfr/21367657385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/35427898221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/37761538543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somogroup.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pabawipezufokufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5kpshbb30lod12ngb8gmmbfq15/6131816121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c18af81d8b1f92a1cc67f604918fc4b8/kopamikefoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609233359b806---57408495867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835c448d46b---74670077423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qlsny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff28dd1a937a6b1f38f579b085ec0fe5/46573640040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klasykarozrywki.pl/public/images/fck/file/13722811712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caramelitos.sk/files/93964717031.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_off000116dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012eee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EEE 17048 bytes
SHA-256: 11f7fd742c9ea9c956aa0a3be0e7b50acd8bd5a0309b0164361fa8fe89977ce0
font_02_sfnt_off00015b62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B62 10732 bytes
SHA-256: e37e462b33b496c0119d8e402c8b650fe64c512ddbc2abdfec408e40e30a64cf