Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25d69cc701a2bf6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB Created: 2021-07-07 02:44:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2e4e3ec8ab5e4e3f2f55c848d23c502b SHA-1: 89f242b219c8ff3c56dc961c53c137f59e6d5bcc SHA-256: 25d69cc701a2bf6d011ab06b5bea08ce594143405de0153d1f448224f180b63d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly suggests a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+does+energy+move+through+a+food+web PDF link annotation
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f25b873ee---kulaxasamutuzajix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6adada99e2---xojizoduzijerepizif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pehddpfl9aokdnjr1i3sdfdjap/288525216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fri8vvp6qre829att7g2okegf4/33549157852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac96c219d1fbc9b88dddf197d3025fcb/kuvilimun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83c801dc06de90e4239807f71f1f7e9a/41509739036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f306e84552---tejinibubunifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mgf92mrnlrh6o0ckgd7qfb69m0/88221280539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52025298753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd7bd541270783828f85bae16caf1666/jipipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1db6132d7a4f0b639dff75651a7761ff/36150980323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/reruzirowal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c296ff8a581---94260809615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6hiqadhrkjd811pt9v0kj3sdr3/puwutoxabibewikimepaket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c28cd2ad96d---dikomalugemobiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jgincl3tr63aq1vblm9qj3ucbt/78052942606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pk-kuepfer.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81214135887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagnosticaedilizia.com/userfiles/files/53610678644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://langestrand.se/anvandarbilder/204/files/madakanukavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/lurowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8e22953e3c---vutakidita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729d0885512---tisufar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duquenne-moteurs.fr/webroot/upload/files/14966312978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/045c19af1b5eca80f5f5204e15280e88/mezig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ob5de4jibv20m2j18b1ulg1ke4/zazevenuxafeda.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_off00012200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12200 17796 bytes
SHA-256: 1eb8a68ae9ee80c88841218ca580d6bf52733b91f56e904e6a999730c69f6e52
font_01_sfnt_off00015027.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15027 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001683e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1683E 11160 bytes
SHA-256: d99e79f4656d994188e7dbed9ace4057e4f62eb73b1399e1fbe38583f0dd38a0