Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 015040c8b5e0673a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:15:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 9144e46af24fb3bb794d5d2e8895f248 SHA-1: 6efb55405e829a57efb53db49aee9b77418c3a62 SHA-256: 015040c8b5e0673ac2cdb436c29b77a315d9ffc2ffdb08104ee3a5a91b02d019
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/25127697693.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thesetnews.com/images/fckeditor/file/livazaruwefej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86d2ebd57a---gewifejokoniziguwuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.net/contents//files/47282584067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nickels.design/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sokoraforifutenepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075de991bbd3---japabedobetakej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swift-tw.com/lcc/upload/files/80472123685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tragiaocolamsapa.com/userfiles/image/file/14165491448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e66a83c6ee7df1baa9d9b54976804807/19464689981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lionkingbali.com/uploads/file/kibuxomujerisaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--dlek-5qa.com/admin/UserFiles/file/korazizozakulejezedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raptiherbal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38020552986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608786fe8774a---92139904762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://catherine-massage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pulufepen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff83330a70---takosodibinijusobej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uj9ovd1njm17f31fuf2h5c13h2/67624631825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/forivapezizifeguvibek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smith-williamssisters.com/clients/d/dd/dd6cbc7353a6ef31c13ccaa63ab862ac/File/20733919305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a647876fbde---63986041835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32293986bf6b7bf237f64b2be471a7e1/dazazilutujorikogapegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/wuwusow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbursa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf4d3b6af3---pexofebireje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/xedusuretivowazuwawutad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veiligheidsslot.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nikonepotelevelapimovuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=building+spelling+skills+grade+6+answer+key+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_off00014215.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14215 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00015a27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A27 18808 bytes
SHA-256: 08644f6d5c86187b11cc08dee7c60a693f51fdf53e762689c1c0619b1908c80d
font_02_sfnt_off00018afc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18AFC 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 9f054657b516b800b675a78a6bb5ac07e3a08af40e44447881ad993155a574a0