Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5825102cd0991289…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-14 02:15:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: adf7dfc221ff3340ce373fc9b7ea78ea SHA-1: 22163d1e388588c1c9350ec5e25c86b49dcb3dfc SHA-256: 5825102cd0991289137aa03127bce55008c13cf8e386c3a0732dea7ec3aaf491
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, likely intended to redirect users to malicious websites. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's part of a phishing campaign, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for malicious actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=interview+questions+for+hotel+management+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v91d2j5gv5m2cdv4hrq8r5b3j0/tunojizalebiwiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-stv.ru/userfiles/files/gazigaduvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f32c9915211078b950e9c0477b5b250/75166053199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e99264499e58ab53dc33d38702153b86/banadalasuluriwopowigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aanugxqi.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lozedosekozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herculesestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zonikobubokidajozigat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1b4d657d2e---mexexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc378f4a947---baxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.com/php/uploads/file/peropegudulos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homestationrealty.com/userfiles/files/12900284808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/156ab58f1edbd71073dcdbe1b0b6165a/27010835284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/51061864551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/78174232432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/mulelonubuminixesix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/689e30c7d1c0fea74a211d0d01d1cdef/sizev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gillsandgeckos.com/userfiles/file/kalimuzagovuwonireb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equantumconsulting.com/files/files/84177887887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1850f061b---84755301466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a521a0f89---gusoponawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4203d359dc46d4f35ba418149e6ffc1d/jokupexuvejal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mtc9oucs0lhkp3gm59rfmjaang/30596437148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/sowaxanisasodosewuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o87rrm60bc52g4s5jm44ppr4pi/56388325879.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_off0000e769.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE769 11148 bytes
SHA-256: c1fadf03dfb4a44beef9a89cf9b4b02c263bab511f3ceef86fbd92d881fd5185
font_01_sfnt_off000100cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100CC 16784 bytes
SHA-256: c049a251ec857a6ea4cb883be8bb9149509a0c993aa1fdc1b32ee17ed81eb511
font_02_sfnt_off00012c5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C5E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1