Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25de38edb2cc4edb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-08-05 01:54:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 644f3d261b63456a1d2635b87b2e4105 SHA-1: bb6492ac1a16acee574fb09211362629ee23c660 SHA-256: 25de38edb2cc4edbe208e766adc0b54103368e361b4fb5874adaadbe6970fc48
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://mosvag.ru/img/lib/file/sulepexadezoli.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717567ca04e---jekosonoridijiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40d475b6a8b6283b40907a2b7d79c6ee/giwejoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/13443390873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muskogeeroughers1967.com/clients/9/98/9899c641331876fb313f08ec475a0443/File/31048649960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac82bb77017---papodinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f6264886ff---wafeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idroter.org/userfiles/files/dojesizakikova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siam-royal-view.ru/data/files/zisemonesisivagedadaxubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenfountains.com/uplds/file/26514726418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furnitura-syndicat.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/35059645591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p8jmuaderk2fcrf3jd1kv0uolm/95170519503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0ca2d558f1---kixebaxegilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e23fd1c7b4---7693353433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f82615f676---80971363739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e75e21d6076cb10f46585a559aa4139a/japasusesutejar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buyafranchise.org/files/files/16273987811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086514c4af0a---97813980195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087ad6a8b761---fifulitaparibununukaluja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b48ho2h1mms576e8tnr5fn8j8c/13631341486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://35ct1.com/images/ckImageFiles/files/jerovaroborisoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d6bc47a898deb368bfa662958c5fd09/97267444869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=the+course+of+mexican+history+9th+editionPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a9d44e4027873758a31fdcae6ec2d61/xabunoxon.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_off0000ef01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF01 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 79d34b2e3f050f0e81e7a198683ff4730d85843d7f4d1bb49a33840f3f1c39b4
font_01_sfnt_off000108fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108FA 16484 bytes
SHA-256: 7fbeb6f87eaa9021bf588e4fd31aa34db769c7cf9418ccc1c6ca7f8ef6db1abe
font_02_sfnt_off0001338d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1338D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1