Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e25bfb6fdb114065…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-07-17 03:51:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: df3de1c51940c202257210ae290f24b6 SHA-1: 06506a4d89ef7c3c112a00c41277216238da83ad SHA-256: e25bfb6fdb114065fbf351e036910884a9a228aa8cd7f0419f13e5ad0fb06f85
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98490221086.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a72fdb0426b---97131273741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovatepc.com/userfiles/file/wizarozifinogisosojipabok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8rtdbts36ol2ieakge2sjvl382/jobidolafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thongthien.vn/upload/files/suvikipuvajuwiwemaliji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpkprzemysl.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dulezaneriwizusak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/babiporofiboget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medsplus.us/admin/images/file/famoporidimubanovubitop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/765cbe98880519c7b391e466ac26c3bd/xovovopefurivadizuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/venisurupojuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2cd7de6fdb9ef08de003226d82c2f5f/72681786110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mnj58kfdult6jf12cq37fslfd5/47604156238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f9596c914---wijewumajunozevijusavag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/wuwowasolinetalitujuwixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/196283997960ecb3d913632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9c3f62965---20009727290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ujjtbmpppjkn4t6o52patqgpak/zuxetekopirofeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rowanfamilyreunion.com/clients/28915/File/naludanenanavoxujiravimav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichibus.vn/uploads/news_file/tojasojavolobipexew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fruzsiflame.hu/userfiles/file/94186148458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/73062256328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ede6489d718---xawazekozopanoxorigavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/470a65bb2a112bbfa9b0e998ccf66ac4/galelamofipubaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwindijk.nl/home/edijk/domains/edwindijk.nl/public_html/uploads/file/majodotadororasuzaxegesis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepaper.tw/archive/upload/files/90954407798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=sayings+and+phrasesPDF 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_off00010252.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10252 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011a64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A64 17152 bytes
SHA-256: af5c1e78d1d6150ea3183142e4f3de1762241efdca3ec41e1d404222f3105336
font_02_sfnt_off000146d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146D3 10596 bytes
SHA-256: c14c540fb5501ec8177e5cb80cd5de4e67730da9fcfeae09e40f5e9dc14896a4