Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25ea037e3306b74b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:55:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: acfe554a9715e607f7805a6562239286 SHA-1: cb41e431c2b0610c7ecc46687c1cfb35a29382b1 SHA-256: 25ea037e3306b74bde424436dff1f6e02f44f993c42826a3cfed9c49ad7122e4
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a QR-code lure. 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 0.9963

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/risimuzepewimomori.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2247a41de372fe25087783f147c37ee8/lisapugopedolebetopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bq3bjp5uftf6bih72or62i840/24996606471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skazka76.ru/pic/userfile/37365985990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamilannuaire.com/var/www/vhosts/vps296430.ovh.net/tamilannuaire.com/images/file/29915127631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenxuanhuong.com/upload/files/79130157767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.fortunekenya.com/callmark/files/89682487789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vienhung.com/webroot/img/files/pafinujapaxowomubofoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pytextiles.com/userfiles/file/badejolenawibatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1d7e23e2600b2cdd9f70781f07735e7/nelogudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mm13l1hb8bvv3jgfe44k86ab1r/mabupig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f54b28c1793d4ce83cb5f9b2147d0ba/32592811980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingtonkatsu.com/uploads/files/66744490718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibconsulting.it/userfiles/files/wesawobujavovola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://focalthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/18774703895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collectifff.be/imgdb/accueil/files/zixaxozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternatifhirdavat.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vufibubelulezipex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mjilfeorndg8nuk8dlssdvk00f/vovirefoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://byty-pardubice.eu/UserFiles/File/70040289936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaiger.ru/img/file/60982524036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novelinternationalschool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/benibejitoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c61863a8203---mogukofusozidasopewexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=entrepreneurial+skills+class+9+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0000c29c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC29C 16868 bytes
SHA-256: 92299190bc2e9a93638ecd520ccb3b242979c2ab8e306e90503ceaa460262564
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED4E 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 8b398233ed0d11541c1bd2fa180acbac8f60e5503051d34918c4a265110cdfda
font_02_sfnt_off0001071d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1071D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1