Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a625cd02511b5ca8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-31 19:57:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 1813c38689516eef46255293d61dbc2d SHA-1: 778d31d9198bb71de7845cc07db42b44a968d8fa SHA-256: a625cd02511b5ca8347485ceb9e3a69fe98db4cea5e29f723d53ab71cabd678b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicate a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=5+apps+that+make+you+smarter PDF link annotation
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/upc2adsrge31pftgr203h9i7tm/gujofesakalorawuwazebovul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsite.vn/uploads/files/xejalasopuxanigasazavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/21781664017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/12361650231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/fudasadagafenuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhsclassof1971.com/clients/74120/File/78798341141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dd0d3b4731---92594045732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computergramm.com/userfiles/file/zubasokudopap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaikaland.hu/upload/file/karogupadeworojamidefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/kubabuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/67376331138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danielbushreunion.com/clients/41596/File/sekod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4671c6d588cc02913ca70d7b9aa0d3ef/49862103516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a672a3a2cd957729b245bde1406e6f1b/jegusunuzuvaxazijolavosil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607adf73947c1---62976127702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/26481976126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/joruxubetotevuxeninojog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/129acf4290b5f5c8e88d4c385e546298/49519096630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e3f6841882---70219118315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/vafoxire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcfe3f9f758eaffffe73683760bc2011/29236016647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/35180116046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpinist.store/sribati/editor/uploadfiles/soxisowigalogabirimero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b66c8164e1---61144351826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f19d3895711---ferib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/mutuwobikosamopa.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_off0000fc49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC49 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011460.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11460 10616 bytes
SHA-256: c558069a3f30a59015b83d9496d09619d644c8abe3c31d538163e15b990c94a8
font_02_sfnt_off00012cc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CC4 16868 bytes
SHA-256: 58a58ba2924e04ae22ef42bb9e780f75210b4524481b0befe983a6a1627126a3