Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 015e931233fa1b05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 23:17:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: beca78854e50cd5e9adabbaacc00fe78 SHA-1: fef85a4546d12ac3f05a3de24adcfe6d8871ff03 SHA-256: 015e931233fa1b0595167e1c9590b76ebf2ba284200f042b73e8df02fffe7667
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=parallel+life+abraham+lincoln PDF link annotation
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/nakokudasota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607656fea46ff---nujavak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079765e28a70---donokufokodujozeburev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf837b37b247a2cd89eb0749f9fbf602/39796332264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e21f271492---2526011404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/827623946f8bfb0d41ddd60caf7f8f42/96585496191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608802f83b6e3---pibodilirebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/kuwovibopewusarag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/kipaninevapesinebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----gtbercbfedtm3b.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91331627883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4add19c9e4---vogemax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/92661049302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/jajozebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848c4fd6fd6---67595065460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab4d03520227f2815c7339fee1e47e75/vinekepabusiwanum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/kunibaxodejusijumej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789bc235853---nokobevitupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guclupin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/8099437265.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_off0000ea40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA40 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 5bfc37f2f816238d545c113ca517164adcb9ca8f16634041410b2cb4184992e8
font_01_sfnt_off000101c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101C7 16916 bytes
SHA-256: 6ea3adb2caf6d8a6056fdae4b034468d89ca9ed7755373e11db4f74a9b2614d1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1