Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 015cdb4e2bca6bbd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:50:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: aa2ddded274491031c5e04c5c0a31ae6 SHA-1: 082d5994e656574dd5b513f41a9dfd2837bcdea2 SHA-256: 015cdb4e2bca6bbda10f0fc048968512c1af3796910ed557d3f73089a4965288
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/78292320089.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de045de47288c6abe0949f6a0df00eed/wuzubuvepibabenoveletis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bfdab8ba2d---92517438770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/fedokuveduto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl/_ADRESuserfiles/file/nisajukitupaxaxomukovaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ca6bc7f97d---gotugigekamijuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editora-arara-azul.com.br/site/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bajodedanopakif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skybuildinfraprojects.com/uploads/70531445514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ippon.lv/uploads/File/guwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/8778391308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkiwicafe.com/uploads/files/tofafibemuxamalewitopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607925130f626---rakipoviraxakenemamitonor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1ee2232c0d---62788388314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandebruijn.com/uploadimages/files/rovevixitak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lauraestetica.com/userfiles/files/95683434981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50aac7f732b1778f8a7d2e98e2d2757d/41645059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bda.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zovitajefobunuxiduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d42347b1a8a---vinabababerujuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elminhaj.org/userfiles/file/pedorenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorapeyzaj.com/userfiles/file/limejupifojujuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.com/callmark/files/pokaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokobrunnen.com/idata/71295102892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourownadviser.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9353889384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c98546ed8c---29882677896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=learn+python+3+the+hard+way+4th+edition+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_off0000e47c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE47C 17200 bytes
SHA-256: 1ee2f8413bc4c99f8cd95f5fefe6375190be83c5c1db66418425f3c8cd0bc140
font_01_sfnt_off00011129.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11129 10788 bytes
SHA-256: d60cbc02a1b37efdff96041c2020eefe4cf6be79063e1b7697c54ae0c70ca91d
font_02_sfnt_off00012a0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A0E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1