Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c15580e3ad13378…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 11:29:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e6b2dd3a55d13aac4a5f3a38a93d9ed8 SHA-1: 399222f87dac0b1437c7d77d212be72605015bea SHA-256: 0c15580e3ad13378ce72bd149a158545587fba2a07e2915d55ea819a6c30ff33
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. Several heuristics indicate the PDF hosts a link farm, with many links pointing to external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.lipca.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62059818788.pdf
    • https://matrixx.lu/images/wusoxebinewaxo.pdf
    • http://teamwork-poetschke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/povititakib.pdf
    • https://snpwachq.com/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16784547581.pdf
    • http://korytnica.net/data/files/24463835259.pdf
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e174527265eaf85c7340344308f77d9/52023333341.pdf
    • https://dhesient.com/media/vefokumuganasetep.pdf
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7edd69cce525b8a0f8b0779f0cddfabf/zixejanopij.pdf
    • http://eco-versute.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49753600412.pdf
    • http://tiramisu-o.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/31246152194.pdf
    • https://maggievanostrand.com/uploads/media/file/lizofubadubigotebuxunekol.pdf
    • http://tndgdemo2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/liludizu.pdf
    • http://www.majbrno.cz/uploads/files/23705027379.pdf
    • https://www.playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/29849154603.pdf
    • http://starfishdowney.com/uploads/files/12454014648.pdf
    • https://treasurehunterdetectors.solar-ovens.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43648501605.pdf
    • https://ice-group.pl/userfiles/file/simosonifewukolowaji.pdf
    • http://bibrka-school.org.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48609991281.pdf
    • https://zzhqhi.com/d/files/nedapenenum.pdf
    • http://problemconsulting.com/img/download/files/61640248937.pdf
    • https://ocw.tw/uploads/files/46523479340.pdf
    • http://lemma-studio.pl/userfiles/file/30950861093.pdf
    • http://nattuvaartha.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/xokafodapuno.pdf
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143ede23459a---zefupadababi.pdf
    • http://kocavietnam.com/upload/files/nujipi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+largest+country+on+earth
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e0ca.bin
174e51a3ef82ad9cb738e33e668e6f0ceec4834da2381f1b35bf0ab3c31799a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0CA 10716 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f969.bin
961cbbc37be539f2f99c5125a376fea463934dc05f6801cc669b6d60a7ae5039
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF969 18256 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001289a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1289A 16792 bytes