Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 825d91eeecf3d07d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-01 18:53:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 7604cbe4b9da874af20747838fa95830 SHA-1: 7f578b20b9c038018871daaa5d8cb1e411c62b27 SHA-256: 825d91eeecf3d07d2098b554e1ca628784c663bfb22e21d0f10eb439cc2a2d39
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, directing users to numerous compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests it's designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=advanced+grammar+tests+with+answers+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/xaditejipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lav70lrbc60eb7m01fjacfuafp/nipedovimobuxaguzokiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807bab67265---gorasup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/nodedamonevewazijaluxab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6f52f0d5e8---62317624230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4c2dd3e1f---38562962946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fe9259d9da---rosagojewupikemog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac521541f52---dutorijekedenazisijero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cipetbhopal.com/webimg/files/fosufiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saammohaseb.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24814d7046a4c999d68998ede941a15b/91481707064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095107930627---fapafigesemopinisib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakuragiramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/68710408124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5372ea1883f65febc99a014fb6f1a0aa/31265536992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d813555034a---40248487914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qqhanoman.com/contents//files/liwuzaliketuvezupuzotep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17eb8e237fdc801ae389601649f8d555/64421096494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9d6dbba7a166f8bbef5af8f513478cf/94979251534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pich8752j7h1epateqra97nvk2/zazaralatupanuzanomoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f8dccdc1717984454f3f775244b200a/85440952023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msiutilities.biz/documents/tesimuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9c9e25ef93284cc9985d22e7a691e30/47915226787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2s5g90vj1nmkr4mtd6vlaerto4/gobifedaviboli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4680548720020dfa95bf9d167ca7dd54/26173063897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0f58eb339e5490695924a705e95ac7e/12904298182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/tajofuri.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_off0000f64b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF64B 11032 bytes
SHA-256: f65f61ae874e8328706bdf439be6c0f040d3d22a4a3fd755a47aa8c4c4c00b49
font_01_sfnt_off00010fa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA7 17824 bytes
SHA-256: 42cb5f4f5c0c2a47c66feaa9daa17bde53b1464a983e59a3fb750889cd847586
font_02_sfnt_off00013e39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E39 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1