Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0015f8e4356687af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 18:42:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e17a66ae213b7e1c90938fa01be7861a SHA-1: f939d1cb4615dd151e2c1dc61bfdfed180e082cd SHA-256: 0015f8e4356687afbbbea829d7f9b82daf30098e05f1cd69c4ed0186aaa163da
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9887

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nasty+dirty+text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/fizeletomapusorufa.pdf
    • https://prosperitas.be/data/assets/file/35538887986.pdf
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af4f4f7b446ae76114adaf8bdfcb687b/tidirem.pdf
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m0452t0otij8pnr8chc5046vu0/tafeja.pdf
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/dopenuxexiselakux.pdf
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/83828958255.pdf
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092bf0cc4508---bujiniwogenef.pdf
    • https://rockyshairsalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbv2dh4h0ot1g7jo9q6fha55oi/9952689479.pdf
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uqgui6iftrua30qotc09btel8c/60259104096.pdf
    • http://prime-standard.com/piceditor/file/80559941795.pdf
    • http://tochuchoinghi.org/files/bigogutipagenejiba.pdf
    • http://hzzxtl.com/UploadFile/file/20210625190324712.pdf
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a59ad3b154d---8919331466.pdf
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd777e39fec383132aaf4c3c807cbf5a/61620026657.pdf
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/jasamuxolikik.pdf
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb0bcc353e---pawazojufaruririvabimevej.pdf
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89opl6ed9d15k2pqthlithl25k/33059878109.pdf
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe5936ebe097e8a9c181228c9ebebc98/1082112769.pdf
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098339fbbab0---7659768331.pdf
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/pusadinunugox.pdf
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da0ae0c4a99---tipavavil.pdf
    • http://eatatrudy.com/uploads/files/ralid.pdf
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d01ae61efd55d06fd5ef3a97eb967295/68293294803.pdf
    • https://shipnhanh247.vn/asset/files/77614821780.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000138a1.bin
41ea2b2b4d59c5df39cd3c1b037596e2d319a388bf2e165cf0003948989d6f52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138A1 19424 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001695a.bin
6d90ef45aa7a1101d711e5b9725e4a580d052ed3deed92cb3f8a8c804eefe73c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1695A 20208 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000187f1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x187F1 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001a008.bin
fe24f7a954b9eba4c005225c7ee834e03017dafcb1b08e53c40ca1038cce9723
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A008 10164 bytes