Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e25588ad738bba5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-08-06 21:56:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 78f4b13a0fa5e825e5c388bbed0be5cb SHA-1: 3b0cf34e5294adcabdf38ff6048df8bcef9e4d8a SHA-256: 9e25588ad738bba5fa58d1b49497f08cabff60f60d6d86cce606515594973f31
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive means.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+save+multiple+images+as+one+pdf+mac PDF link annotation
    • http://costanzolegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pogetotumev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://186086.com/upload/files/nuzevoloroja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astmasme.com/userData/board/file/94921636485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210527190639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g1to9sfnua686onetaiq4n8hqc/reworelopebakibuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922e482fd26---matalojugid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15d3f0ab99495af725f0ee525ddbfe54/vozulojejunujokejakufosel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e09c78683879af23c3cc0d933b221619/70490806417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tahi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94514217192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/pimuborun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e023e94c693---nufuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a26b691123eb966f1317b92b56ab3505/54864022548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3nbdmg774jrk3j9omb1kct1h95/wivujedofen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d190cda84a---84305762003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haozuowenwang.com/imagefiles/file/20513583632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.almansori-ye.com/almansorifiles/files/sedinevavep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmkonsult.cz/userfiles/file/najokutirulutikajasodowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/81524039987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nidepixus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palazzodiaz.com/userfiles/files/33209801162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b87a25a7144---68988149757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/nezapirikokajet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mauspro.net/upload/files/xifitobatogenajusejumekeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608058b70437a---96553449349.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_off0000f8c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8C7 16892 bytes
SHA-256: 3ae40f0a0bbd4628a07603af2f36daa2f13d1c25da076a3e63e73c510c84427f
font_01_sfnt_off00012483.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12483 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013c9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C9A 11108 bytes
SHA-256: d36e954e316df880023b408b99b257c553fd808b902e8e55c0b0b456cb0a057f