Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00155b94a46adf2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 08:28:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 1f120d5945fac5d2500c8fa5e4165f58 SHA-1: fae0cc4a2eb13cc7a843657066d63ea2622769cc SHA-256: 00155b94a46adf2e7802d8bee43ea51918884da862dd833596e3239cd75e0b18
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the link farm structure suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=thumb+joint+type PDF link annotation
    • http://www.empresshasnoclothes.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/fajane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba82c06cf9c77b4f0dbbfdeac1253556/jazuvixogamesizitepamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9cda62664---89399541298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/816c5d86aea32dd622fa89de33958ac7/90556186763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iphonerepairservice.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/fenazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1abbb2a52187217040864fb73d55dab9/99183533628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gsnaocp040vc1ve1q8v1sn8n03/93607036197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5dfa62518c---makagazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/sizaxofekubenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/56186478603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlapcongtykiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/45998326342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088caa68e83e---28753709539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b37ee25f9ca729784aff403b50907f87/82098948605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077de9226309---57657343696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanayapim.com/rsm/files/85682635394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myveolife.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/709f095e6cee3701efbe1d2b62a8c9ca/taruzudefizolokadudawif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6151e8915bd5f1311dd06db21ff8010/15068594881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csptech.net/admin/userfiles/file/junalitawudumalevemusutom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718e2b03700---mopazatekofixega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiddencliff.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210615_7EF24DEEF1B88910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/26990953150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo.de/res/wysiwyg/file/dumobubiduxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fa35862ed---2714030607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608470471b355---rokevegikemasajila.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_off0000e8ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000100c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100C2 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 2c6fc978fd894ec4d6f7243bcd44c892cf5f579a952d9401d6fce813a62037e6
font_02_sfnt_off00011821.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11821 16304 bytes
SHA-256: 7ffb892b3d0e838560edcf06ab7260f5c334eeed884b4d4760734d61048cc644