Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5de25e2c3c30178c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 17:00:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e472babfe62497652ca1772832481211 SHA-1: 80526e21ad797ee14e9d60e7333e07013d1c96ff SHA-256: 5de25e2c3c30178cb6a4cc2ad54e004d5bef7adbdbc4d1ecb500a98d109b2429
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristic analysis revealed it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://townofwinslowin.com/flash/townofwinslowin.com/file/16781587299.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e23c8ca257---12968417706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobile-translator.eu/app/webroot/media/files/boxugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/dizuvuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sleepthai.com/piceditor/file/78705063967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strelnicebudejovice.cz/userfiles/file/vunozib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioituigiay.net/uploads/files/fepat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161378edf67efe---4279890725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liveranigioielli.it/userfiles/files/bovexatofunixibol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findmealocalpainter.com/insurazon/admin/userfiles/file/rizevuvedogegolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pluimveebeurs.com/userfiles/file/rotixupokazedolik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metamorfozyayincilik.com/userfiles/file/gafarijetolaviwerobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/vowunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ippon.lv/uploads/File/madefapuseguxagakakura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spostojow.pl/userfiles/file/wotufir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huemin.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/powiremil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iaido-iaijutsu.ru/userfiles_exc/43755174064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/surelejexulobawagas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwiatmetal.pl/userfiles/file/vabajezefanaxovoparudoput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/duzanofum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612feba1c9be7---39722026687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odra.cycling-recycling.eu/imgturysta/files/16717065444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguoixunghekiev.vn/userfiles/file/15903479041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tradotel-riviera.com/file/10419706984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=watch+monsters+inc+online+123moviesPDF 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_off0000d95f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD95F 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 4045cd33dbb72577c82e4b197fa01ea61ad4e8991c09f409130fdb2291bedb69
font_01_sfnt_off0000f28a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF28A 17844 bytes
SHA-256: a2c420458324f46377f91c8731d6b725c4073f06c16e17bd23c09e0767d48645
font_02_sfnt_off000120aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1