Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 835c25b569f033f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:25:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 214ec022308d04b1e4e7c0576ae6fee3 SHA-1: b335b541a6e4f951120815339a5a092d97cc34a9 SHA-256: 835c25b569f033f09639f38c10a25c69be205b009d92af4face8224d4495dad5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to phish users or lead them to further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content-based clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075849fe70b8---66296979343.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mayurherbal.com/userfiles/file/bijomixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alles-vom-schreiner.de/userfiles/file/sujavanurimurugenufulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c493b85f1019996ab1a035fe19914fe6/wunidijadidaxewar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simondaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poxibalamabinefit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sec-ollivier-associes.fr/www/upload/file/zolukazakub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612cda2ca182f---lerako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711071381ee---ketoxofewibotidatowunakaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57dc9d7c79ddd30e20cc51f7d84d962d/lujirezedezot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airholic.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/62461409259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmnavarra.es/ckeditor/files/pelawidaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termofriz.rs/files/11320484791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativitagh.com/pevron/www/img/file/zulan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://culturasiapamplona.com/guiarte_userfiles/files/23267975249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wignaccent.com/FCKeditor_2.6.3/userimages/file/20210712092723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1610ffcf7af9a3---wivewabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/figibunagenexixokuvuwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ded9a0b6ae95f3bec2e3a1cb0008c603/22310968903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6320f8f0fbf0331a09c59f06fe87815/78663042115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techson-cctv.com/upload/file/towuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ballarioarchitetti.eu/userfiles/files/faxejofavujigabuwiwatubid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5c9c61cf99---mupuwaneziwurikupuraga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoya-system.com/uploads/files/202108210111547384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=estimate+of+building+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_off00011224.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11224 17264 bytes
SHA-256: 6023c2365992c19ed2f95616f4cf71e2ba4631e18e7ff20a8414678de923d2f3
font_01_sfnt_off00013f28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F28 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001573f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1573F 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 792f039e0904448614f22ac72635ba021cc2a4a44f037626c2e45b8eb9ab0850