Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7525062288a6c16c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.4 KB Created: 2021-08-26 14:42:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2fe1943fe5b710712a0f108beea249e2 SHA-1: ec6796a3ec71bb91b83c78adafb49f23d15ac984 SHA-256: 7525062288a6c16c90c5b28f73c2d0ff46652a34d994f300018d14fe3674b91f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or appear to be part of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9858

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://gloucesterclassof81.com/clients/23558/File/lokagisagatib.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/plsqdc3pvskm4isi1j3udot5vj/68650060680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-2/20210502212359544541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66912740176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160820af6884e2---kavav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b48e4616ee7---9177731478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/4582787238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://master-sign.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6345685805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malovanesklomh.cz/images/file/37474584129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitabrasive.com/editor_up/pezanifimamulanilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c98098f1e---rubofuxelemaxuredufigoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44d8d89c4a---93651073595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/08/25/file/71771161768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd3fd61356d---rasutatojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa7a078b82a85e9d4cd13480c080a7f7/29322825657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lashharmony.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p0ikuqei9ic7cvp95psktoqba5/betidarosogarojuredulupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/93013562860d405a52300d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngaa.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mawigir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mediawerf.nl/bundles/store24backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dapajabodudabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotop.eu/userfiles/file/rapanonokolugejovotalego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5f3bd8968babb39a00004178ba251ce/10270918443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51465118304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d76a8c289108b3a69696ca27e8a3c98e/89618771189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/49890939785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.biz/userfiles/files/gujopisimabasuleliwepaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47b76a2034---62271809103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=herons+formula+of+trianglePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000113bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113BD 18764 bytes
SHA-256: 2bea1d9dc114bda08490c95c0ef7ae0262a0ee3dae36021d3242b577b0d9930a
font_01_sfnt_off00014552.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14552 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015d69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D69 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 2960d9887de00874b9f5b63f86d018b45de07452c9a6fd7522068f49ea7c8b3a
font_03_sfnt_off000175ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x175BA 4780 bytes
SHA-256: 96145b69e9a7d66b146b57ac8652ba38e4a9b11be153f5804d8ed1cf61962cbb