Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 151129f7d17e1942…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 20:31:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 930a826a551dbcbbcaee9a39ae12838c SHA-1: e69709f71c8e6da46fe01807c1bce7e5e48960d3 SHA-256: 151129f7d17e1942de2086172b0ec0bb687012d0d6259c39d6fd4f252857a0ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for phishing or malware. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristic firings suggest it is designed to lure users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vasculites+reumatologia+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b60a0005561---89599555234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6rioee12qjj464577ao7d31ev6/zazos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33274272979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghrnightinwhite.com/clients/7/72/721f26fb9237119891afe8d29dbdfc29/File/75750426215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tovicetour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210821_846ACE44D18CFDE5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitaleny.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57ee9b7e4682cd6fc0eff4627e56cfc0/mumagojovek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eac1cf85d43742c1cceb1573803f17c8/2756001277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b7051f79c---89385681900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/pawixufezegenovuvaniwujoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607010ed0db1a---pototuweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6300f9a878---92336551717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cablexconsulting.com/Upload/file/buzeliletuximifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161216a68032b2---21883560337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0578102aa---nidegozapunadojezixobos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitstroycraft.ru/source/file/vatiditomupezejat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/jowowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesontario.ca/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/wefizunikifasagap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4256815e75b694f457d5ed30ab4811ca/weziridex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kabelkyaobuv.sk/editor_uploads/files/26202260422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.comperat-89.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/defifaxikutozaravuran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/047eb9d81f26de59fd0e511373422cc9/gosagesanixusekamo.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_off0000ddb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDB9 18376 bytes
SHA-256: e19d18a637ddac1eaac2606678bfe32fce2e88986895d61212e4282a3c728b2f
font_01_sfnt_off00010c7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C7F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012496.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12496 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 47991577a567bdf7d39cd82c7369c328990b11275ede772fc924f5b6e06f5e77