Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1500e40ba95ca909…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-19 13:58:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4188bb643d077d5278f9fc09dd5a43fe SHA-1: 18d1b6b960e9b841567d9d45c076911ec09d9d54 SHA-256: 1500e40ba95ca90949bbfc8df9cd0bc8abf3fc7a9f8270d2d8cf34b3875023f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://angelsforwarriors.org/userfiles/files/fekudor.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://anhhuynoithat.com/asset/files/36983079444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recit-de-vie.fr/userfiles/file/26414332638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topnotchimports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a17bd29871---subomaropolodegifeboribi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-affaires.com/img/pics/files/mivamifaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosycaffe.com/file/lepemelenum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613574bab06ac---92976000673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunyaminerdemir.com/resimler/files/87932644856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/27232967008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26oo1k7m00qujvbgoipmkd7vg3s45pjm/1171432363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4de49da98ac78422ef6ba739c139b49/fopowox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agecarekorea.com/ckupload/files/64620465182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/24452902880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akatumusics-ang.communication-pro.fr/public/1283/contenu/file/65077535851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srilangkapools.com/contents/files/53677874824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://affordableadobe.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2901827364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trivio.it/userfiles/files/52801262849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexperte.de/userfiles/file/jerugadoxipavigevip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hferrynetworks.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210911_240DAEA2EF7F9D4E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquarium-kochi.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muwogitaderiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongbaycruises.org/upload/files/zevikuwolexivexomivigabuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=drawing+on+s6+litePDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000ccf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCF0 10536 bytes
SHA-256: f1e315d9231d2ed5362d9af27bdd5ed7811f4d5ea4ec7512e5719c5c0bfe1a56
font_01_sfnt_off0000e526.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE526 17832 bytes
SHA-256: 433354d064873ee30c50fdc8c1a22019661b4b44fb77c154638708b75a143512
font_02_sfnt_off000112db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1