Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25fd5a2e3171e548…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-27 21:05:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 6ba2ea7af8d37a5c3b7a3b0d897757f2 SHA-1: b8971b1a4c2afe7ab07f0d586ec107e868615a44 SHA-256: 25fd5a2e3171e54896794945d289529d8afe002bea8047fdc8e3bc71aadef6ef
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to redirect users to malicious websites. Several heuristics indicate the presence of link farms and compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021091717045666.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://milkexim.ru/imgeditor/file/71801655991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/83308392863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c8c1c658ecb30b8167040b5ce7c5b7d/fujabufelus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94utnlunmlahpsjggevc8et706/fukekozoxidemepixowup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145caaaa73e6---puwolududo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130e7989c532---91530175595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j2m71ojsftmq8nja266s8u2a63/19144181036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicellbank.com/userfiles/files/viwaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lanolizopimoremujura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ramseier-appenzell.ch/elrada/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97997625081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fdb7d22f83---83553807991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisleriwheel.genefied.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98719432335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fontaine-eva.fr/userfiles/files/kusixuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikomsolutions.com/admin/userfiles/file/57234619591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farashimirooz.com/files/6285334477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://institut-arabe.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74679645810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bkc2cgakf72ejq46d7mh53epv0/joxutamopisagenoliwubed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somkuthyoptika.hu/editor_up/45625170672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasekurzy.cz/userfiles/file/malezejepotagoruva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nazragame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/16715180613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/26335491974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b749532c2e6c0e08e3e7ee8f3c72d16/takison.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopgraeagle.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/rujuvuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=fm+lab+manualPDF 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_off0000b504.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB504 9776 bytes
SHA-256: 205da13d72507fc4658b6e31b05b1d4de9ff5bc2f31bbae196ac47fc8e24a2e5
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA45 16288 bytes
SHA-256: c929b51529f300babb16319793b30d4b03897cc8c014e548c2e3ece418b13e78
font_02_sfnt_off0000f30d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1