Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a625a1beb98db018…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 05:21:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c9b5ad1199267d9f55a3d6af8ec4dd3d SHA-1: d877c03e5f1e4c5efd9558fbe8a7ab26fc3ab8e6 SHA-256: a625a1beb98db01817ee5d3b2e8f17bc3940e0ad200199484c7f3aadee1bfb70
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, likely intended to redirect users to malicious websites. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pet+radiopharmaceuticals+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/woboladusogemetibaxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elite-weekend.com/clients/9/94/945a7f92a07ecc721aac768ad340748a/File/44978833300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b77bbed07e---pixevopoxezodefede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608064bf3c21e---93456145560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c996d916c1---bisituz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m3hotels.com/userfiles/file/56096708123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/ponuwojexinamufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a1801f7aac961b518ddb159e88ef919/79224543916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldmedglobal.com/userfiles/files/74813776770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienmaythanglong.org/uploads/files/demeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/wifipunuxekekopovekokuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac34baeeadb---kisaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonroller.com/userfiles/files/35600994479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944d667f48f---3552423145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magerp.org/upload/files/pexumuzebisizug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyuemu.net/assets/202108/files/20210817144328133877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1609b1b1a313c8---87216751066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119a56a03b2e---basukeladedabenuvut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iphonerepairservice.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/18211349701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingmontagna.com/userfiles/files/laraxokavavatemaxuzafid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/67903825135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darienhigh69.com/clients/866565/File/49690193544.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_off0000c619.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC619 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000de30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE30 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 377cd5b0255bc824fc0f295ff213b80eb6380a32a7996f95133d6ba09177e5b1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f754.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF754 17348 bytes
SHA-256: 271f1db6c41dc04e564c52f999ac35a3386667903471daad7ab92d3fca16fbb1