Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e625b867f9a6e1a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-08-20 10:58:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c8751a0cd7cf42adbbdb6192bd474353 SHA-1: 1d89343ba8c3250d3e53214f80ee61cb667ec703 SHA-256: e625b867f9a6e1a0e28daa5bc54420ba19f08b01b172a1943e94f8d83517ccf3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised websites. The primary lure appears to be a fake utility for undeleting Android text messages, which is a common phishing tactic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to deliver a secondary payload or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=undelete+android+text+messages+free PDF link annotation
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854e554bf62---84566872831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609834dd37acc---27729325187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badercool.com/userfiles/file/tosezonakiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/33763042474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carefirstwalkathon.com/clients/8/89/89514deb4c0e8807eb046cac28c4977f/File/nelejijima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160951c4dca2e3---72147990691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af5dac42a97---xixanokobusekifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defaico.com/d/files/55395229361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d87e72eca2b---88646877754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093e8b9ec7d2---65923767729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f8d39953dd4b291f461162d97ccfb6f/liloguvexawoxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque.ville.deux-montagnes.qc.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sexefajikokitosukefaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c779b5fd7222769de680c76fae424d9/retipiriromojusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3906110b10---40364611706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/37060215635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morard-mcf.fr/data/Files/51485220244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/walelixikuvagotika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c42ba54d39e1fc9e0b298d2423c4614f/nenepokizaraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pypconsultores.mx/userfiles/file/nabem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olgapolyakova.com/files/files/92304400507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malopolskiszlakwinny.pl/upload/File/98495887821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsneotek.com/ckupload/files/kaxidufelukotom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dc44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC44 17056 bytes
SHA-256: 2a3160216be212d9fda60bb06a5b59733ea6d27a3177756b9709b6b70bb98146
font_01_sfnt_off00010919.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10919 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 77a0819a98023821908e4292c0793619c9179af77287c391aae48f1d23926161
font_02_sfnt_off000121cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1