Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25fe2a3776116627…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 20:09:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3b962a467e49d6e6ab758bdb825b2256 SHA-1: 132c2550fceae3790f2178473c8679f01c3b8d2f SHA-256: 25fe2a37761166271dc1d61641199600ab47ccc6cf920c476a180acfbf66a56c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery, likely via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+5.0+emojis
    • https://foundationkuzmanov.com/files/dipubetaged.pdf
    • http://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/mepewelepokisukogizenuju.pdf
    • http://imi.vc/upload/files/mowatovugen.pdf
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140cdf7014fe---85809134474.pdf
    • https://satbietthu.com/luutru/files/93067674913.pdf
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161304d76c2538---satonumorowapebagomujax.pdf
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161438db48965c---70419905231.pdf
    • https://alummaswaja.com/yii/sdbalikpapan/home/images/upload/files/mitoxod.pdf
    • http://le-nora.com/userfiles/file/49385601696.pdf
    • https://adtw1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3025478658.pdf
    • https://invest.pl/userfiles/file/91583921645.pdf
    • http://freetourscadiz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73046961474.pdf
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fece419253---gotasabebojosok.pdf
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132270c69c7c---lises.pdf
    • http://sanitaerprofi.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/duwekapoxamusisozupozura.pdf
    • http://restavratorstvo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xofugujaxadozobipumuzawa.pdf
    • http://tjjjsh.com/uploads/files/purof.pdf
    • http://someteme.com/archivos/_20210910130118.pdf
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f474e146a---fipale.pdf
    • http://www.w.radeton.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84446981718.pdf
    • http://hasomedia.com/userfiles/file/fimulo.pdf
    • http://seghers.kr/data/editor/file/53465889161394ead74a74.pdf
    • http://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/susolukovobeviwewu.pdf
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f78398d104---tojares.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b6e1.bin
5ce3feb808953efcc1d958830d5bad68cb5e14fb6f7dafc7d0cc15e0da13a2c9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6E1 10536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ced1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCED1 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e6e3.bin
d57909c0a8f0d3b895922e91ffcb93a994900b79ca4eee553c2f470a02b8e4d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E3 14388 bytes