Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2725fa58a368145e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-07-17 20:48:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0670b76bc8c585e1f849e6297135db2d SHA-1: 321e4eb86951f454c2718b8572e6813c32c42172 SHA-256: 2725fa58a368145e1a341741a247467ddf5d5cb6d8056ee25a4ffc30626c9e7c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/89354092367.pdf
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d38cee56bde---jobarisevivotavoxazibipi.pdf
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609613f019898---gawefedadufotaj.pdf
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/611606a7ee5c41468049de93463078fd/88524619576.pdf
    • http://drairtools.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82555478643.pdf
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8ec2df3b5---jodupe.pdf
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df7a3270584b4de11ee72efe8ca1979f/7964380666.pdf
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ad35cd2b87d7c69097f40227765f715/6252509665.pdf
    • http://hi-techfiber.com/userfiles/file/pizokibumeviwokori.pdf
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/6212161192.pdf
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/85827013990.pdf
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6a1474757e---54047415640.pdf
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b506431b156---54283715788.pdf
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c71380628e---wovelakumovuxilek.pdf
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g8eve95f986er991o61bj1lpt5/gafefun.pdf
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021070200580673499.pdf
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2db652f972---83424422600.pdf
    • http://penzion-u-zamku.cz/files/file/82210976765.pdf
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607008c58023b---89399220087.pdf
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c8a94899af9082bbb0184647652a7a6/89735442543.pdf
    • https://nattasampun.com/upload/files/zorexamewujopolaw.pdf
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37bbbc7d9ba5108989d20732dafb5807/95298214388.pdf
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ca631521f6450ff65f71bf62854b59c/mubofa.pdf
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f5cca7395---50958468048.pdf
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021062908005466.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=software+engineer+reference+letter
    • 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_off00010c3b.bin
14f846701b67644a9e463f1505b12f985d1726f375ec2ee3a9807ddb0b3a7a2e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C3B 17568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013a3e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A3E 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015255.bin
459dfd86d55cad4e0a07eb280ed59d0f69324f9ef8babbdffc1efdd42d169167
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15255 10504 bytes