Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c25ef1958515766…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-17 12:07:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: c23d2cd3f8387b160bd2330ee2f94966 SHA-1: 6da7d9caa7bd5dc11a6d4d5ee34edf917bde5070 SHA-256: 9c25ef1958515766b99e56d5c746e713bd0289b7559dbd2eb83be876808dd6bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to domains associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The file's structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://uss100.com/clients/5/56/562308f4da1da23328cfd9e5c9f3e68f/File/getodejikix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210508095017_1813607160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1eq17pelpota9nbm01g1vdcg3/refesapemibaxaxugepiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee6b982064---bizenipavoramidegake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.ch/upload/file/17500508947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075eb5eee510---sozawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92c0ee8f756d8f692d25d3b339b39240/suratuforobazutiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c9ktdvs5d0v50uvu7pacnbch9/xaruxekesolawodebigomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a527ba30c3---98588764786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9a151ac1270ba54331c677b04a350ee/nasojomazexalar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-techfiber.com/userfiles/file/pizokibumeviwokori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073526e45234---18303450986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082cd5836040---galemimaradinigibizix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budka39.ru/files/31908579431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/xulotupumapuxoranej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maraulsan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83299313377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2c3cfe315e7abf0bd644bd93126aa86/lodevodafesifenerul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamorenj.com/userfiles/files/gesasirowikarap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aerotechgroup.ru/img/outer/files/gojafukelizabawigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=most+communicable+diseasesPDF 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_off0000ec99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC99 10664 bytes
SHA-256: c7f5338c5448d0630c8912136c58ec0bcaed3ca1b65e5f82ffb4614167f54f30
font_01_sfnt_off00010508.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10508 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D1A 16972 bytes
SHA-256: 3aa710ef80d65d57b494f01fa694367d390d336e1e0467745af492c03cb65781