Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 150ddf5802b243a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-09-23 18:46:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ea4e64e21ea401fcabc4b4d93cd8ca03 SHA-1: 3cc0b64a795634176ce6922f9cb52afef65430f9 SHA-256: 150ddf5802b243a487de494b11704c236754246520cac4a4e5e7c0b8c0de8518
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external, untrusted resources, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://tandartsindex.nl/images/uploads/11809266699.pdf
    • http://moje-stranky.eu/userfiles/file/madaguvegexa.pdf
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141a0263b489---54740613163.pdf
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/zowatofad.pdf
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133034c8d1ea---84425002772.pdf
    • http://salonmysliwskirys.pl/userfiles/file/nirofiraxoputiwokapugive.pdf
    • http://chupanhnoithat.vn/upload/files/39270786190.pdf
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad540c6c5c7883bb24a61ac05dd61be1/95155079620.pdf
    • http://wasserentkalkung.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8065564868.pdf
    • https://booknowrentalimo.ch/userfiles/files/38385628272.pdf
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/69022858612.pdf
    • https://srldirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40096232932.pdf
    • http://findmecakes.com/userfiles/files/49832438272.pdf
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139e998487a9---18367183879.pdf
    • http://stowarzyszeniemalyksiaze.eu/img/upload/files/10003098984.pdf
    • http://nataliashishkina.com/userfiles/file/naderofasevobevutebowa.pdf
    • https://getracemirates.com/userfiles/files/buxaxewabotufirudi.pdf
    • http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/vekutubugixol.pdf
    • https://derya.afmiletisimajansi.info/resimler/files/16001292403.pdf
    • https://viettrungson.com/media/Files/99312540961.pdf
    • http://woodlandhills.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/gojiti.pdf
    • http://tentauto23.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rolovalitufidodudofa.pdf
    • http://1yunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lilupewupopipove.pdf
    • http://www.videobezopasnost.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/barojeredoloxibebomarifep.pdf
    • https://ww150002.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210904225930.pdf
    • http://pobierzplik.pl/uploads/files/89130714928.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=another+cinderella+story+2+full+movie+streaming
    • 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_off0000f0fd.bin
17136b5fcdaca311ddb7b62348aea65d2ebb1b1efde916b8199ab589a8563427
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0FD 18160 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012029.bin
04e4e02ab6b3bdab3742e76a436d62931c964afa82519cfd5af965e8fdd0cf84
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12029 11304 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013a70.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A70 16792 bytes