Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a25a696eb9fb20c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 02:27:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: d337a45dfbe93b66d92a302e7579f9e2 SHA-1: bbcea346e7652f6986c6c811cb801d172edfb2e1 SHA-256: a25a696eb9fb20c0f9279b83b702451de5242e882808632a85f19c086247720a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'Download Button' heuristic indicate an attempt to trick the user into clicking through to a harmful resource.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a75038de62f---68984890281.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/90201342011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/44432689357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandchainfamilyfoundation.org/clients/85333/File/88028930781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b506887779478aa64da7272adbb7d2e6/bedaxavovigojudoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mixmarketing.vn/upload/fck/file/99664175120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9732d08fe8bab9b0668bf4b6fc5191fd/11747477137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qcpnd04bndoei3kif8l9f92rck/57750061441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsaovang.com/uploads/userfiles/file/55403298750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b590c7c246---49164435846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608212283103c---zevokuwidazawakador.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://101doctor.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/60baf36cd6038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/tuvebaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070cc00ea7c9---97230836876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607387c61c87a---47245236332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b76321b8f68---lesupavuwafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarbotosani.ro/userfiles/file/3253342784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2abv5imdoq73uadkm7ucd6v16/5813299148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b041b689cdd---xanodiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71k888o686hfutcudqkffds0mp/44601317179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbfde8aa60---tarobadilalewefoxodus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p72bgeco985kd5gmote4d9m0s0/vokub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozari-ua.com/files/file/46041453797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=1000+chemistry+mcq+with+helps+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_off0000caca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCACA 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 797db14173b7b86722164630022795bc5d5c0954b6f2d895d4769caafd814f48
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC05 17380 bytes
SHA-256: 7f45d5e43c3b50e44812c38d21f68beffcac7f6701a00904c898616b29c4ce1e