Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c25787eb0d017405…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-26 22:00:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: be9aebcc601e4ce0afc44b30b1181ee9 SHA-1: 919c72694c5e95e074d5eeac2a18e654c847616b SHA-256: c25787eb0d0174051c1b22b85b7a78c87d0ece3f4b7e60682fc1b0b22631c40a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host or distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure or a downloader.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d2b2458513---87128546508.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://baheth24cars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3281378394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d17fc464a8---21728885959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamboomfi.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/52735210672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hausman.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/53084419453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://printific.com/images/contentimages/files/temonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariaalbese.eu/userfiles/files/sukejopezutipavex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macroedunet.com/userfiles/file/tolobadavajosuziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castudio.eu/userfiles/files/jifemomebux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasteadmin.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/custom/wysi_uploads/files/nivirugul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/36136854037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceleevideos.org/images/file/82267468624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bushurov.ru/images/files/tutasewefigojeluta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oneworldkarate.com/fckeditorimages/userfiles/file/gopefofolosedud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ad63feb79e---xawunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f1118a8578---xopeduzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/50225788101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paoladebenedetti.eu/userfiles/files/fuzigunug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soleilboo.com/images/uploads/files/75802839088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewtch.com/upload/files/dalexeruzabisiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/54537270283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evaemlak.com/userfiles/file///jafumipibowijalatulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radiosmile.hu/upload/file/muxobiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92271518804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amoslodge10.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/netoxijatitat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=jl+the+snyder+cutPDF 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_off0000b2de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2DE 14664 bytes
SHA-256: d45602325ccee5bb01a5ab6fecf7be5b35886e25dc36c8ff9751620ba07f5a8c
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7C7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000efde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFDE 10300 bytes
SHA-256: b50a4d9fae13000513a45ced933d82d6160c721c69476baf22229ffe181b5c81

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