Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3025ce72afafdbea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-08-05 13:57:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fc65d885f92de0fcbfc2ac2bc488170a SHA-1: 565825469121f3edd492b604eb97c046092d0451 SHA-256: 3025ce72afafdbea5c9aef39378aa5c6b14faaf3c03980c71db91226d1dbed67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classification and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users to potentially harmful sites for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+calculate+isentropic+efficiency+of+compressor
    • http://canphantich.net/Images_upload/files/wefonamorupezakifori.pdf
    • http://businesslegalgroup.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sunufeteje.pdf
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9711c355286f9cf0f036f72cefa5f45f/julavelokarugoradij.pdf
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba938e1fb792dfa956be44d4064fe83c/zovegavoj.pdf
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3e39e4825---10167638701.pdf
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27e5e2e2ec---49588015418.pdf
    • https://ckmandarin.com/uploads/xubaju.pdf
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ca761da5dfbba7c071ae16302eeadd7/bozekezabosilas.pdf
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/676918f0030be5665290320553d57137/megofifodusajejirug.pdf
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/sexusederomuti.pdf
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/367eeef003f021fb09601abdf3505816/19486898984.pdf
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e98e4739fd7b9d7a1217a407a50638b3/romipajunopazevifamone.pdf
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90628c3d353d7648ad0a3e96792eb6f8/97518245541.pdf
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/36748597208.pdf
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac923c31c4---80898639463.pdf
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12ca9c3cbcb3068daacafdde4135d064/tumenukatetukumozure.pdf
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/gulefazegupobobakubelaf.pdf
    • http://wagnerpc.com/userfiles/files/dadidataroxijimibigatikol.pdf
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d17a56d9c4---67597677991.pdf
    • http://gibkrakow.pl/uploads/files/61804604155.pdf
    • http://www.oneworldkarate.com/fckeditorimages/userfiles/file/89570973951.pdf
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3917c3f205---95721629921.pdf
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/76813707310.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_off0001026a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1026A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011a81.bin
3fe7448f1b7654b7b3334690cab80d4d3c90236808d91d3840c37fe2c10a0f4e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A81 10932 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000133dc.bin
8af8f1c6bad4611060889f80d227abcd2cf266e2c1b56b5d8aef1571805d421f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133DC 17316 bytes