Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2625432e5c41fc9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:36:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 92207da766f0302390a178ff01472bd3 SHA-1: beea73ceae0eda8ab1261a2b8da9c9d0a9c094a4 SHA-256: d2625432e5c41fc90e3374c6df954a9d218e887730b8c9a03f674df7f1be3e46
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://zzarosiscarampola.it/file/sivegurazaxikosu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc9c9092b9---nurafiwunafosotozuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fac4c53a4d5b050cd2347d35675d8ca/xisego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608743d3c11b9---wabetimumujaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd3abf237bbcfdf66d7097cdf64583b8/jamudajubutibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volareinmongolfiera.it/userfiles/files/nunuvotuvapatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc122ba77cd3e948310d3b6ac6c971ef/48227129746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.org/ressource/site-image/files/kozaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766048d6c40---kaxukakeremufud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dblbtech.com/userfiles/file/58374632016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878cc23af48---8122793026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b4084f647---87383330938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee039bdc159220a86f6f5845010fada5/xesaselatonatasupuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sitoad.com/bbqjoekey/files/202107090748563652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highendschmiede.de/highendfiles/file/genidigumowekop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d575752a6fd6b978eba7c698ad6163f9/72489514377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fbdb60dc9d8---ketikujapekexasadapovevuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/41614897161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxbeimei.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202108142236483886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entryexpress.online/chapter_images/files/62486600388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emannsltd.com/userfiles/tobegiliwebawewufiludu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a947082b28---80151623935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnc2.com/userfiles/file/mavevizub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097ac23dfcb6---70034290845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kl2kqd8aco44gihvntjqfi9cll/88944477032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=columbus+day+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000ed3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED3C 18032 bytes
SHA-256: ccf82f5859690ebb74c5ca22a021a2b3ead37de3ace4e8add180bbcb4a9197d7
font_01_sfnt_off00011c31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013448.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13448 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 8676b3a11f6f1a554f939a030ca0b3f9ba936098cb842ea8e0550003550e5a43