Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0815892d62308d1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-06-19 12:43:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 340c2952bfa0cab48118df9c895ce8b8 SHA-1: 1ceaeea4ce331a5cb62df3088d76af8303721eac SHA-256: 0815892d62308d1a1b4c5a0fe577a8bf5f86268bbef8166bd45cfd0300b88025
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports an attack pattern involving redirection to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=word+crush+1510 PDF link annotation
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b24d263a9c4---66098682949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a1c325a05---dajakamarupes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/zulidef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4a7021b5f3---54122989815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamday.com/userfiles/file/bojoxovalakokokapog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/40443133033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monuments-msk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e3f302a8005c1cb3761895b34c48f75/sajefuzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a3ac25163---finizaguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/zagutasajabuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f56dad6da1fd150edb8c8d74e515144/28837243248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c601629fa7---68019604565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norilskgu.ru/userfiles/file/71226587759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93bq0c9ijnoar57v4t7896ogd2/46921668777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28df7ae25cbf4e5b6dfc5a5973bd931c/tajupirexew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF2F 4644 bytes
SHA-256: 31f0a246051b70d3638735f52bc21126d8f491289e955d0f6f7495c7dc3bc052
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF18 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 7348da82d87a9821e538a27d64b702a9214273d884e35a90dda31e7a877bc441
font_02_sfnt_off000112a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112A4 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c