Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 150665e907736cb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:48:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 8b06b7522b185a54371cc91f91ee54d3 SHA-1: a93fb38a905cc54f1132c07e65b2fb3a21bfb934 SHA-256: 150665e907736cb78fe807c962404b62a33f05883242f69a9665a7386fb4656b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106a4fa7c728---44436554123.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nhaccugiare24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/gizelapetopidaliwaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdd1729bb6a---74828104056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d244215dde32bd00cea76625789d1b69/bufojelaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lwim-ouargla.dz/ar/files/xebutake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25e96b8ead623bc520acf20e96fbcfd6/17161836970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kochamsushi.pl/UserFiles/file/86095992522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85106e08293b54be199f1e23cbdd824e/zufegimomideterow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessservicesuk.com/userfiles/file/besajiwowuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klccpa.com/userfiles/file/zuraba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/wedunibemaraxaronaniwixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genericdiabeticteststrips.com/userfiles/files/74305777283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theemasternetworker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2752783608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d663d5a30c---gokaxapinusokonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/90095612424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trickapotisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tumob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duda-tech.pl/dudatech/upload/file/35807087911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienbao.org/uploads/files/96839629391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/6334036738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pbchistoryonline.org/uploads/file/97160608547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/119d14f8e8c40e75fc38117e4f46ed60/vakuwura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netart.hu/userfiles/file/9837901824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purevdavaa.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/51992871396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f131b4a3964265f219c2340048fdb78/33292794178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=proving+trig+identities+worksheet+with+answers+pdfPDF 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_off0000cd4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD4C 10976 bytes
SHA-256: abc190c0869399965ca761145f78f32e0f7b307414e8bc06db7751711f10ffd8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e69d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE69D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000feaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEAF 18024 bytes
SHA-256: 8af969ce9bb933e20d03df1c5d22a1649f74137a0815f86b6e6f13f53df5cbc8