Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df25b02485330ef8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 06:31:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: fe9c67d5addf72bc8e2d0b095501ee4b SHA-1: f83da2e1a84f22efc931ad8311dfe6b60c8e5bc5 SHA-256: df25b02485330ef822d8f0c0884413b60756422c74270d5341fccf1c933db7ae
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics point to the document functioning as a link farm, directing users to various external PDF files hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of multiple PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM firings strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://indoshaolinkungfusociety.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86347520182.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://homeuu.biz/upload/ckeditor/pages/files/94862923440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datacomsystems.cz/userfiles/file/8690954032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/636f5d209c031067d3220f1e99bb0a41/lomurutidedileni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zochrot.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75183872355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lokalsport.no/userfiles/file/lekebabafoxibolumodejol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319f58db728---pofoxutonisegelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-11/20210911002722669053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.180.103/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sekudeguzabapewino.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.utn.ac.cr/sites/default/files/files/tifigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0975811252cool.linker.tw/files/wotilekozalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gleb777.com/fck_upload/file/fusaneboxonog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebiocell.com/uploadfile/file///2021090704105428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luiginoiobbi.com/userfiles/file/82225485860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spamsmsgiare.com/media/ftp/file/36773052048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hongmao.tw/uploads/files/202109070056368027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/80028002440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kredoteka.ru/uploads/file/5990184090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istocdukkan.com/userfiles/files/werebebitubijakewagesuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albawadiroad.com/userfiles/files/96982322044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dautuck.com/uploads/userfiles/file/27763544838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e18cdeaf95836ef215baf87df9216c2/seruxiledo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wefocusdesign.com/upload/files/mubirewuvijot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ciiinnovationsummit.com/ci/userfiles/files/66933580258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autokolcsonzoszolnok.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/35637149286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landtop.com/filespath/files/20210907105532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=play+free+games+among+usPDF 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_off0000e2d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2D4 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 9ae2f1d2d97e8a21a41da3bbce745b1da416c3c42937359bdc28a4453e9be836
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB0D 17340 bytes
SHA-256: ba1226823ee6038808fc1703adda36bb1a11f04f33417b9cfe666a812f051f76
font_02_sfnt_off000127ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1