Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db25a635b0b6c312…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:33:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4ab626fb45227da5e12a74681eed8dbf SHA-1: b47be08f740d944e5342e93d1ed53008c0ffa734 SHA-256: db25a635b0b6c3121745b6b7cecdac1834973982119af7d08f12d9f09b9d8b7e
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 document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's designed to host and distribute further malicious content. The presence of multiple URLs on disposable or compromised hosting reinforces the phishing and malware distribution pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da4ecff92c0ade90f17341a0d5ae8d4e/90860204024.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://st-ark.it/userfiles/files/99004583850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa5cb7be0d---23969240623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091189ada444---lajipirobamidebinutosezut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a991cc4ebd---wegepuzol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d59c2e87a5---tafodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4619418215---54457897200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hoh0afih5q0ok0q6jmkpjv386k/4335314712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/49154746791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fincasotilloviejo.es/files/sotillo/_repo/file/surepova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccca3b8d25e---1544131474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b112c4203---6540530376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dchs80.com/clients/c/cb/cbc185099defa3274d3d4f74835fd64f/File/75148366180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/12950807051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.com/userfiles/file/84834996556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlajkylevne.cz/UserFiles/File/49715406200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaf8099cc330647c58bd0e4b6358eebb/69146811138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/49997455850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824f0e9b4a8---lepon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/farowukuposuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobardinisrl.com/userfiles/files/sopejobidigazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096428ba063c---latelusubijexufirokafuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982beb12e5b---63899250357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=coordinate+geometry+worksheet+tesPDF 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_off0000d24f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD24F 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 41f54779c04c3d87b6d5e62b9a868fcd794aad6239fc3c181ec33d648793895e
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB74 18032 bytes
SHA-256: bef22c711be736637c9daced97450fe8a3ca2c80d5eca342f4fe826298d73b36
font_02_sfnt_off00011a60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1