Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25e3935ef0d960cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.7 KB Created: 2021-07-31 07:04:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d8d4393e7d99fdb9a9be391c351048b7 SHA-1: 9d86dbafb29904cf6935386c13d768555d2030a8 SHA-256: 25e3935ef0d960cbd926820654de2478155a5e05988b3f6ad131f7073d2e6af8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated content rather than user-readable text, further supporting a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3vjb6ivbngvnffr6icpseu6l1/75454285153.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/13206273417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ab61acff1---pebupinijukuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859a0e9ea25---78910664413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42b51761ab---kanemapet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43orkdlan7jbhjl3ed66rhjt54/misunixedofukukutenolizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krono-original.vn/Images_upload/files/15349376870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d3e70039b---55906386759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhsclassof77.com/clients/c/ca/caa0b9827732345dad94809623212052/File/xezutubojin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murphysbeads.com/clients/54316/File/87491751718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/sesopomoxelufiwozojutoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec6634e6fe---63824965523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fred-robin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puduvavixirobezikanulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.frank-diagn.hu/userfiles/files/nogirorabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0q4jmqhi5gpt8ufvbeam569ea1/21571714717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ee1265f73fe9a694d6e2d8618bfdb84/12429049692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1117ed51b6defa5bf0e79d193efea18c/67122148065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bcfbe5518651ca3afda63e74879386d/lubodakog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh1966.com/clients/1/10/1054c114374c88b4a165e91103565d41/File/vetarome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i3mit.com/shopadmin/upload/files/14089249164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e22556d659---sugepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/fudujutizox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+watch+the+cw+dc+series+in+orderPDF 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_off0001300c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1300C 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 4e185e91cfa49b6709a40344933c6a2cf6e9db20d60c7131cc9831907cb1aa26
font_01_sfnt_off000147ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015ffc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15FFC 17432 bytes
SHA-256: 9f95624e2da7df1c5cf275d23fff18208dfd1f86f979d917379de2856685e483