Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a25470db74d5a0f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-23 06:53:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 6d0e2938738af49a7ade0f4ca665a3fb SHA-1: a6cb745a0ee5b360281e42c8b0c329b001439272 SHA-256: a25470db74d5a0f9d28636c111312c2eb896487562bd8a00140699048341c759
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm for SEO poisoning or phishing. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection to these malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=top+notch+second+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ad532c6aca---redatavunaxiviral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebelhotel.ru/images/news/file/sidiwopet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phelieuviethung.vn/upload/files/ganapigejanuwoduwot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgrafika.cz/userfiles/file/vadalesif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/jekikotesemifota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tangneylaw.com/admin/images/file/taxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04e25ea8a4bfbe6e0d4bac069195dbb3/1155808003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haai.org/upload/file/2462604995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/70067079256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t66g2bug0e50uag7g886rug5u6/ravakogelepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leasingtowers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kibuzuburi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimcert.com/E/file/titezuledovuletitilezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmrivestimenti.com/userfiles/files/komijikuvobamedezaluwod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smflow.in/admin/uploads/file/nuvolugilesopirinofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.portofmiamitunnel.com/system/js/back/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vovujelurifegawojuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jin-ji.com/upload/files/47451943569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceramicaartisticamarsalese.it/userfiles/files/bujavati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liccuza.ro/stiri_files/file/xisosetime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://athaj2.specialty-match.com/upload/files/90296633086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikima.fr/uploads/file/22688336764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eb59ec52b5---depumagotidutis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profix.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/207686863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galerie45.com/userfiles/file/sonipajapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinwoosmc.com/userfiles/file/30605950394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khonggiansangtao.com/platformecom/img/upload/file/97212241681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itfkarnataka.com/cvsprojects/SSK/Source/2.0.0/images/files/66483595155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hftyby.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-11/20210911102308725863.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_off0000d9dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9DD 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 8165e09a93aa4fb54229b4f67f4c542f7fe10e8a0537bc77de0587fa0233dd36
font_01_sfnt_off0000f140.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF140 18576 bytes
SHA-256: 4db37b5455754c3eea94fd0911e9c7717e528714a2d0146224b1dd61781daa87
font_02_sfnt_off000121bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1