Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 115b79caa583106b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 19:46:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2eb0090c50ad8f1a8f8a8128c4537c31 SHA-1: a51f056bdb9e3d03c0b093a8ae53fe4b86077b9e SHA-256: 115b79caa583106b3c372b95ad50f4b27cb35223bd8a5fc8cd3920133ce4b466
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to host or distribute malicious files. The presence of these links and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b40bb2083---fexiwefidaxawukoxo.pdf
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a87bc18fbccff5cdfd7f5e87f9e65fe2/rupisuxukutilevuzeg.pdf
    • https://kisikana.hr/UserFiles/files/sogovebenusipiz.pdf
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b8e5673383---vuxixabogugu.pdf
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/75642043325.pdf
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/vatovo.pdf
    • http://www.odnpoznan.pl/fotki/file/file/gadefadeseforelivedeti.pdf
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fb8e4e9aac---sarelababinuxirisof.pdf
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a932e26294aad9ed9857c363fbb5e210/15405007550.pdf
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e3bf1ec1f---rerepigolupis.pdf
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/def29c953b2fdf858c663c6a5ad62bda/mugigexoziko.pdf
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca86265b476d11d75f380d308173b5f3/nowiw.pdf
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9a28c4d1f38770745c2e4323b45f182/48649733693.pdf
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/725930c25374d48b4723bb0a798c683e/pesupawenudawonasixok.pdf
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/tatogisuvenan.pdf
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d086dcb82cf---nuxorixo.pdf
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/picpcpr6irjktn417h7oi8mav2/modigefozezozubusomujates.pdf
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/kovugazijutimibezizetelik.pdf
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4bad8a1e74---63060401518.pdf
    • http://cn-daomeng.com/upload/userfiles/files/795ce2901e531980cad441ebfe350a7a.pdf
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/66633698509.pdf
    • http://kamkmori.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95937616189.pdf
    • https://deltagroup.bg/uploads/file/rupofixes.pdf
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pflm249fje0fokg23cqlnfdtu1/87355667838.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=story+writing+in+agile
    • 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_off00010cdd.bin
7068b5ef15b34e8165d73b80891b18768566f6cc67729d85ff1a5d95c6ef5e36
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CDD 10392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012491.bin
1f1c46ebaed80786575034ea5359effb8b2ae9b1d90fdee48aae40591b773aaa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12491 17136 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001511c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1511C 16792 bytes