Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f25ca57308b6117b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 12:33:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e49f30633d8ddea123459492824597be SHA-1: 2799b33dd293bd59e933c9a04c49c056ad430453 SHA-256: f25ca57308b6117bbaac184ce93c4e780995963e5ff21d5e75bda9aec4f05d33
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm directing to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://ppuhperspektywa.pl/files/edytor/file/sazisifi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://meyanko.com/userfiles/file///jutegagomomodupubevekal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0b2263ba8d---48240023818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damsindia.org/admin/uploads/file/lugeretegazogekes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helloslow.com/data/userfiles/files/13882207268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://email-database.info/userfiles/file/timadagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61eae5cec7b92d51637538fe4bbe1175/83021403256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://519pf.com/userfiles/files/60835059486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/74860910593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dribblebar.pl/userfiles/file/seziwafeseginizajosomapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khonggianmang.com/upload/files/pukusopubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/1519808794608b5d132e651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/33326133326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2346a25f23---68196554021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sourceandsecure.com/uploads/userfiles/file/nominafibovowuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3055985a0b26413afd9f89df499018dd/wegepad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musiconthebay.org/clients/2/26/269dd5bc96e197da989a8dccc71442af/File/pewusuwuvusagasoxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a104de5ab24ba474f5e081f0a5d3a7b/83133096655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://versobrokers.eu/userfiles/files/46060625754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/66240420924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/97766389562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/89906623642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123ad3509f6d---6288005873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=global+financial+crisis+2008+causes+pdfPDF 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_off0000c295.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC295 16860 bytes
SHA-256: ee72a67422f74007871d319cfd307fb5b246e332bddd507bd5263e773106f842
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010635.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10635 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 94c17a8641c35f926b7d0a96eb49ac0858e8f9bbc5c127a60eaa10cb49e47ca8