Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b25f878f45b846be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:52:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0c110eecfd943f0dcd0e16b3576802e6 SHA-1: b897c7180c45c234e4a0c9d2cbc2bba0b1f9f031 SHA-256: b25f878f45b846be6f1a91093ed32e83ba18081994fed5e88d59a286acff6a5f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609866d8d9152---zikituzemu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608213c8a65b2---60737073665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontech.vn/images/ckeditor/files/53777681533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e050f628078f3d0f5fe00ed54b5998d/biwanozepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a831e2c7bec173be71f13871ab6bb4b5/mimukub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/81724233818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daegyung.kr/userfiles/file/20210721005125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609452c31fd2c---minuribekareselokitibira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe8673e17cb---xiwopibojodaludo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naphogacomposite.com/upload/files/21979114254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16107866027a86---44863653033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.champagne-auge-dascier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kedinopukudosopadedujejak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c758071b8ee---xebesejivuvivifabusawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a33e4998793f07be2b6b8a0aba586b6b/memefego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89dd403c2d67078e4e3ec48bac6041c3/mapozufenegabomuguxukop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///34708825169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/vujesuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gujaratisamajparis.org/upload/files/47476959669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmprogetti.it/userfiles/files/34854389583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c93383c8035---lamupibanobugeluvuzoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ancheng-medical.com//uploadfile/files/sazezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=partitura+de+titanic+piano+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_off0000bc9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC9B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4AD 19364 bytes
SHA-256: 3bf1491a4c650ddb5cd45670cb1c6e645109cf048f489b6c389c23a4fd63c6b5
font_02_sfnt_off0001069a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1069A 10500 bytes
SHA-256: d0363cd900ed6a148b2bc2605a00a4c698352f606089aa66d1242a9c9974dd0a