Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25f680b1cfe4b0c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-07-05 16:42:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1f218133a412ae02bf580665e017a4d9 SHA-1: 4cb30847a8434b1859283a66c62b7de221419d41 SHA-256: 25f680b1cfe4b0c92694ded8a81c0aea067e9328f41c123a8b2bfe0f596165fb
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, including a 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic and numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and ClamAV detected it as a phishing trojan. The document's purpose appears to be directing users to download an archive, likely containing a secondary payload, by providing links and potentially obfuscated instructions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://orldoc.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5rag9gjd8dkturi5f2d9a9l931/43264301377.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d60c7bf7ec---bibemedirizave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbaac564e0f---88642558881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slippersymposium.com/clients/875641/File/85519023866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/24340066992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipsyclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210520004732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/puralok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/42296077463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c77ea0ecc89---fenudoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748a39eef54---ritumamipuvoxurajaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changwontour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210625_EA4E1E476D19C230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://williamshudson.org/clients/3/35/35bf74ce48b5c120232fd40fb4fe3e45/File/gofimomuduvatubigetasaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/82744281900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/48400625135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782170e4c0a---31134790608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc47fc16f6a---76967166064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/53915356427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/gugomekebadamebasudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72c188ff46b744294b776a30559f3d91/nijelileda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vrnudltcn8p4r2ua6pptc3m07i/ledixinezatobaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afce56c669a---95245147511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nilsagame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/zabijuzamefupififidewige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62d6a418ca---liviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/274fcf5db07d8bbc4ebac031fd0289c2/rowol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=x+force+autocad+2020+downloadPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f5d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5D4 24504 bytes
SHA-256: faa23e4f45433071b23e48a951fade1abbe1a909fad1167578d3c1460f3c805f
font_01_sfnt_off00012c50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C50 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014467.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14467 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 42616ca534a9ee05af5727ed67dce4636763971deffe2d2307667a092ff69643
font_03_sfnt_off00015d00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D00 1692 bytes
SHA-256: 6df00093d1a1fd8b8f95901b42ba2863538c90606311dd4adf1993a433792d13