Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1015c4d9b6efe071…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-21 12:06:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 141d659ff4164d5ff546428fce72c424 SHA-1: 88418cc323caf00bd4afab4d77e00d465b816bc9 SHA-256: 1015c4d9b6efe07114d5ea2a45f231b0660dc50732699b00ba57e279d6658c4e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this is a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature.

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 https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+music+app+for+iphone+free+offline PDF link annotation
    • http://infunplastic.com/d/files/94060283018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monikaknoblochova.com/userfiles/file/bixeket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbestdesign.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/26482840487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-roubenky.cz/UserFiles/File/todajusulalafirisemukumus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cqg9h66clbbp5r87dl7cnuvft6/gozujuropab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olddieselparts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74442440138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polipadel.com/userfiles/file/44404586832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/19662726555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnyuanzong.com/uploads/files/20210921090608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.ca/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/ramavevabefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccadl.com/files/20210906014338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szamosiszerviz.hu/feltoltott/files/87544780976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdadanang.vn/app/webroot/assets/files/90308973760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/12849847886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergepkolcsonzo.hu/userfiles/file/78352298775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c27a6fe45ad94de5a3db5432618a8d0b/7754545998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jca-t.com/fck_image/file/95344613651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141e1ec93fe9---juwotonamaxujawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventclub.pl/userfiles/file/ranapakesozari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.info/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///zozapubuvuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansing.nl/userfiles/file/70931369478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bongoes62.dk/userfiles/file/zaxusapuvumugiwosuloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivetripper.com/userfiles2020/files/77195645781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuuts.mn/uploads/assets/82701201995.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_off0000d841.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD841 17332 bytes
SHA-256: 52a94db8b30f8c35fb83ed670561a0df40bdc994f76867c7532ccfce97d82161
font_01_sfnt_off000104fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D13 10900 bytes
SHA-256: c3f74f54043588e756976f19f09faebcb98571e5fe5c24cc92a33a2c0f891d59