Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25e285a818c8b316…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:55:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: bc0fe1f06cda0d2ff1371fb2062b952f SHA-1: abd3f10ca5091b60c6e46d6acab87af41ea96a8d SHA-256: 25e285a818c8b3166cb3068dc9dfa106ce59b9a6595e6a61e3e6c8310f11e4c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users into downloading further malware. The primary attack pattern involves spearphishing attachments leading to these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2f753495da---52762503432.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mebelhotel.ru/userfiles/files/67820358733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vialivonica.eu/userfiles/files/fejose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorofilmes.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jijeveletadajawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf350e54e4f943e7a2d1ab83509d936f/71190560443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a37726af96b---virajepijidalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debschoen.com/userfiles/file/gibuxibogukejidul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dashoernerboot.de/userfiles/sogixalijipew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msvadba.ru/files/file/vipagamiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delfosventures.eu/userfiles/files/gulepuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dmbc5gckvg8si98j9ht58lb2c3/33119143824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k4vm6uott9jpso92o25mf5fquj/loxarol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/171uml673669gudbhsu9f7v09b/sezaxizidasevipoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089485c8884e---37997937433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c89c86d1229fed0e5585ca054cf5f6c9/lagome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bywuf.org/upload/editor/files/79672417737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wrd13.com/force/file/95735522445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb3194b73aa---46371676917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southwestlooms.com/admin/userfiles/files/74812579611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1c824596d4698988799051da4498165/88806079549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zewaralivixor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoadondientu-ptp.vn/images/ckeditor/files/pusotoduzexitefananekab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexe7cho.vn/upload/files/pokuvozufibuxenuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811efcd5ad8---gupomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=bihar+gds+result+2017+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_off0000d64f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD64F 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 30acbbfb26c4ee00c493d6016d3fab41438249fdc43fc14994702d24ea660961
font_01_sfnt_off0000f01b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF01B 19304 bytes
SHA-256: 755e91aa17ab123bf0fb273a4f0a26a44d0a5abd23f525109694ad70b4888388
font_02_sfnt_off000121cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1