Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b25f5dad62a2cb51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-08-22 00:28:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 857177ceee0f45db2584ec25b2e69d81 SHA-1: 9214a0510d41fdfb6a179c5b8fb1413a663d3ebe SHA-256: b25f5dad62a2cb5178602867b235ef82de4dfffd581345d2a1c3f7414605fc3f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=where+to+download+e-comics+for+free PDF link annotation
    • http://mstreatmentadvances.com/userfiles/files/78575943669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/sabedafamameberewisokovop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9009e2449836cfd858c06619c854502a/84120544979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v0ikftks05p12cjc3nnpk90enr/64487075314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e85ab3de7d2---mapulaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livinglearningandworking.org/clients/e/e0/e05af8355f71d8da3aa90f500b9284b3/File/nupevoliwidosaburexit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agmatbaa.com/upload/files/72903560316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/dufonovikolane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/sedumexexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reclamesticker.nl/images/uploads/file/In PDF document text
    • http://teacherandtraining.com/coj_u/KK/userfiles/files/zelawerilal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/43016465798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/79155131817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pindimana.in/uploads/file/femujimasorefaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d4360cf30---zoparobapivutew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210603_A166012444C58293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e20fc0e2d---66821294499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ferm-matic.fr/upload/file/21503175180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsemilia.it/userfiles/files/20243464201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantalife.nl/userfiles/file/betutexafuwedovisimof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835270e1438---48666973884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyenghun.com/new/upload/board/files/femugovetomivewonana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tennis94.fr/img/pics/files/33806281410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fa8cc6b9723b6e8b5bc528a654b556e/xexojisex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scherzerpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jefelonobenopasisanot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alubiasdetolosa.com/files/galeria/files/nekijowetimojakaso.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_off0000ef16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF16 17596 bytes
SHA-256: af6e863622ace7504cb01eaa386ce7daa1af9fda94407b0ff58ee0994bf1a960
font_01_sfnt_off00011c96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C96 10852 bytes
SHA-256: b296a448810d1702f1e1736a8f6b88a87caa3221e198ac7cca3e1da96976c305
font_02_sfnt_off00013592.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13592 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1