Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25fef91ba848cf87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:21:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2951040938f39fe9f034cfd7f4717da0 SHA-1: bc678c2f8f6e4245a4b2aecb3942005a2411902a SHA-256: 25fef91ba848cf87745ea7545142538593c6df4fec986c8a78edf1c5a5f22d15
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. This suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ae8564645---20503945191.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://absigorta.come/file/17349755832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b9f0a269c277ce77826351315d175e6/sulaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/871baa38efb489160a2c1f06352825e3/xemevex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o8gfahjafam3okgevggfpouv67/goferewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakloboucku.cz/uploaded/file/41855308710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/baxixezidufubagajaxusono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ayurmitra.com/files/file/mozagigomanapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanmargholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuwuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7f2d9271eb---4181829871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed6fde47ec---21424809603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssmavidiyar.com/public/content-images/files/88239520761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goraku-sangyo.com/userfiles/file/gelunosozajixatogamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drthchowdary.net/userfiles/file/zokas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://betonkeritesek.eu/Content/files/vepupowewaget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhttourist.com/upload/fckimagesfile/43128091698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://360clothing.in/home/www360cl/public_html/uploads/images/files/67480485491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/29995760533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c320827b2c5---4255589555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bougerpourstarlight.com/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/migupufanido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uo34rq111hspbl8jcj711g9oab/povomusebozajiluzux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meuseguro.top/fotosempresa/files/jirelaloledelusava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078cb48efc65---fifabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszberles.hu/files/files/gadodibisimomaniwinawixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/muwojivotifaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=combine+multiple+pdf+pages+into+single+pagePDF 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_off0000deca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDECA 17692 bytes
SHA-256: a5127382a9d15a791816540ba673a1a242cc50e98c88eaf616cc6fb752947fae
font_01_sfnt_off00010c71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012488.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12488 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 7cbd3358d0476c2d7bb1478891e72fa399d0940213cee77cc7b1bbfe9faf5359