Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 525e4832d0e3323f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 09:25:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e587b2cfea76581b49dde039b5a1fb50 SHA-1: 80f4aee299e552e4177c973ff065af87de702d56 SHA-256: 525e4832d0e3323fbe5c7d557a74cf2e141c3b756a08bf27cd27b488088a93c0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, including those pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging these links to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+rebirth+harley+quinn PDF link annotation
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/6757798064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xahuaheng.cn/userfiles/file/siguzulebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn---42-5cdakyymnnb9ake1az.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jovepamadelovolazusof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pazarziraat.com/userfiles/file/80659783513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildzipper.com/clients/wildzipper/userfiles/file/70876158378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coral-travel66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buwisifegizagimom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanna-flyingclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zekatavazixomunenolib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.org/contents/files/29632049344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5percent-design-action.com/upload/users/files/21507470340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bf23bb2126456146bb4884b93dacb72/98148759351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kapefashion.com/files/files/12927368699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toyotaautobody.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40620934710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narcisse.sk/editor_uploads/files/67051461508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trexanh.net/upload/files/86902325692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerpathrecruitment.com/swapscan/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77044717268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongshengcable.com/images/upload/File/63721619926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canyonoaksmtg.com/~duckdi5/canyonoaksmtg.com/content/file/27907509830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161359f00ceb6c---46074233371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roshnaai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lilid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatour.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/punujawav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenshinorchids.com/FCKeditor_upload/file/88906350752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca674ed5f02d2d29edfd8c6eb78094fd/mexotivojosomuzibobula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyagi.chi-kara.net/Upload/files/37589310149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/visebufexejasoruzur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eco-building.cz/UserFiles/File/zufiwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000de8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE8D 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 357547f4aa4c814c970626a538f7a30be880ea9431e4f724214c4bc1d3bb0ab6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E09 18972 bytes
SHA-256: ad8042089d8fa9a548b4f4f7eff8d0bfd26a66031e30f78571825f9612df1801