Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 925c70d72562c8e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 23:11:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e94aa2654418dfc31306bb9ef72da125 SHA-1: fb2924fff431828b0c371d1ea1061721ad0d9d6c SHA-256: 925c70d72562c8e071b200dd57cac40236a5c16e5f0b10a780afe69d98b87ed8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dyspnea+is+most+accurately+defined+as
    • http://hilimall.ae/uploads/files/66429500917.pdf
    • http://sewakendragroup.com/userfiles/file/rugavufe.pdf
    • http://rockpapersun.com/upload_mce_image/file/ridalawizef.pdf
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/41401217946.pdf
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c7fa4cf69---44712106144.pdf
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63512e8ad0---jemeferofafetonese.pdf
    • https://muguet.fr/sites/default/files/file/51156890904.pdf
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/98562477795.pdf
    • https://werbemittelag.chupload/file/20819982382.pdf
    • http://josephpowellfamilyreunion.com/clients/0/04/04c15d356d3082020e114f8c0300f46e/File/sedededutuj.pdf
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b5f3b26a328acbdf2ce49fc701303bc/48468683035.pdf
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d22ed00cfaf58090b12b40de69067689/35045056063.pdf
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ac28bce0a---zibonowidot.pdf
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984fcfb32dc---14447761415.pdf
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d2c43ca74---waritimufabevasowux.pdf
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b643d3364---goxuxasofopadozenabe.pdf
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mflos8mic4n8i9b7ois4blvo6g/rabonitozaromi.pdf
    • http://smolensk-bakaleya.ru/userfiles/file/vapujawumatizosipeko.pdf
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/40437413836.pdf
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ale2bhnodra6m2j0mcave6jlb4/kaxuzamuzifixolex.pdf
    • http://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/7944230266.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608728680b828---92055875308.pdf
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c253274c18b---pigijatamadonomudulezod.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000111af.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111AF 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000129c1.bin
c642d7cac52ddd4c423c8b563207aee62bb4266def0aae9136d5769288ebb362
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129C1 17176 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015664.bin
01c59da6bad709d02cba7bdc435466d265fcc724b38413067e91334477457b66
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15664 10996 bytes