Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 525f6eb4c7665f39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-09-15 23:46:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 809604abc3daea0dae92664ab8bdd737 SHA-1: 5f25b4b980deb51083b3037bdbab09d6a19ea3f3 SHA-256: 525f6eb4c7665f3902dbf9d548f7e73bea9e515e15264f847ed5b414ed29116e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://speculatio.in/userfiles/file/57402484671.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.fangjin.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lapajoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsagco.com/Upload/file/vajixapis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/60940328906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.champagne-cornevin.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24646551481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tko.wavedev.net/img/files/files/diwopexibemogapemizewobis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khangle.vn/uploads/images/files/gejim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sky1981.com/asset/uploads/files/xinatixurivub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dataction.org/demo/dataction/media/75309996991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nitm.ac.in/nitmeghalaya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39624108362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416d7b07125---zusonalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triple-a.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93437105755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tradeweb.es/userfiles/file/24028072783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motodubai.com/uploaded_images/files/silezot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luatsubienhoa.com/upload/ck/files/ronetuzofukimiragovom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietdubai.com/userfiles/file/fazamafofobexoxizafimosuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviapartner.biz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20820023568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/nijipijegew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e48c2b40a5---vawofozexedatesumumofopol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chixue.com/uploadfile/file/20210904225612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nawaress.com/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zewifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ba22d0c12a48833f1d0e41b61b5ca37/28638291613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/avidpp4eaa4s8o0n0st1thu616/godifusivukibimejukovoneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=the+anunnaki+chronicles+a+zecharia+sitchin+reader+pdfPDF 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_off0000f628.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF628 18032 bytes
SHA-256: b079bb8f82f6ddc14333647076a46a03baa4ada1c53aeca7f0c7697ce73cd976
font_01_sfnt_off000124ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013d03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D03 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 9ee222eefbc9fbd86dbe36cce33aaf6b47c406d23eba21a1b70aeaa3ff73bb5e