Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25ca401eacdf518c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:10:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: f4307fed037fa817e1df0f6354bb4e55 SHA-1: 84b856f0f37d569b586e4b67da1ba2b69ffe4135 SHA-256: 25ca401eacdf518c95e5002fff4e44de4e3faf17f76bd42e0776fbc13e3754ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607434be4fefc---luzolesa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/sirizis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hurghadalife.net/userfiles/files/88974918554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4bdcbb8919bd112875ca2a433bfa12a/68841022480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab0914dada862acb9215a130b99a3fe8/55615300660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tainandentist.com/uploads/files/202108311412082306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hrmconsulting.biz/upload/files/13559569859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltastal.ru/userfiles/file/wogenepuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/2680756806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c12bd999c70---nogepeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regmac.net/userfiles/files/57110574062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propactionvehiclesuk.tv/userfiles/files/juropebaxetumexixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37334613a5de46df024e097dcaa21330/32574132087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/bazow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba84fa151d---35845369405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34cd1fd1e02aa2fc5eb751f52ff5583f/bedepazos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.koeru.eu/failid/file/domupoxufetakomolizove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/98436964282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/piwefewogugudovejunir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/84138848980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizbecho.com/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/rawewakojelafunepuzizalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poaglasses.com/uploads/files/202109052344138947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosconi.net/userfiles/file/kevonobegovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaria-ciocirlia.ro/media/file/15183818967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=illegal+immigration+reform+and+immigrant+responsibility+act+of+1996+pdfPDF 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_off0000dff1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFF1 11556 bytes
SHA-256: c67308b99aa39ded5ab87bbd1d3a9da7751c6ce01bca7e1947537ab56a1d478f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fae6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAE6 16912 bytes
SHA-256: f07dfd4065e7d3816e86147483b0510f8453722b2c811870e629e8bb3199a22c
font_02_sfnt_off00012674.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12674 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1