Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a25f0fb6158798a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 09:28:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ed3bbb7dd325747031b39d5f9fadb322 SHA-1: 107d349fbfa6a565fade3cdcbff28d83ce1ac895 SHA-256: a25f0fb6158798a762b140f38eab11aebec9836a52854c4d8e0f3bb8202d7163
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute traffic or host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/vagujisesu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.hkrns.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sojoborudedaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xenangheli.vn/public/files/topofitoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batdongsandothanh.vn/luutru/files/digidafetozexibibiximos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84t79u1i7kfr5j17pvmun867f8/digusexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45c21f3f1d338829c8b66ed3d2d71cfa/reduwujanumab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eksan-ltd.com/userfiles/file/36877072027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antropolog.ru/userfiles/file/28958024366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096ffea7955f---gugus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demircanticaret.com/userfiles/file/85775822641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e67878378---zumidutomamemobar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/17710903847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160968fdc56b53---kibaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e6719269c---37985168878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----0tbbbfo0f.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/62910882341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restravel.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45131531297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/434e39609a599d667a2d05facafaff45/12051663274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607578b5b2c8f---68393399409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d5e744b0f---13901271525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8h15ageg6mkpl74taqlvhuegu6/55750051040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thingstodobahrain.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58531827191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f773cc9595---bubegurevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c920b1d3685---37027025582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56da6c65a1c332f3f98005683f5dd031/sesajavigifaxufolite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=approximating+square+roots+worksheetPDF 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_off0000cd84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD84 17820 bytes
SHA-256: 8dfbc9d496272907b21d59b12940f1cf898ca91aaf1a0b3bff1d1beac8185efc
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC0B 11160 bytes
SHA-256: e9fc84030c918ec834a91511b2162cd6fa743dbade67c618f61698f3a94a9cca
font_02_sfnt_off000115cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1