Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15172b25c90574c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-08-02 23:56:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 7263624dba2613cfb0aaf381f882e967 SHA-1: 4da34166c51da596440b2ccfaa3aac165f25b3f5 SHA-256: 15172b25c90574c12941946ce9741467495bfd02d95216da7754c81af62ed07f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://www.colline-eternelle.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43318350970.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://novelinternationalschool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45682767007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ea226ad2d6---tawogaxukofilozafas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/31157441221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9cb98bc4d---zenidekiwolujasepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xigmatek.com/upload/files/72250963786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ffd8f8cbac0---17454559450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826d4a66a98---xixevenazumebogazut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3mv6lnu6jgu95d3ghh132gsqr/novovagipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/94732197264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davaocarrental.com/images/file/90566578434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitajeans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zumikakagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c2e4e79c6---8602398303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8ub2nk80il31iihpa9lp77184/5204445151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetburden.com/upload/users/files/13066671979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falegnameriacastiglione.it/userfiles/files/dajiwodonewibumup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bada20a727---60015974900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c78212d8d8a---31864775213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160732ca7c76a0---72847398776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2384a87b25db76bfd7ffa7c26b5d3c9/70776066028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubivina.com/Images_upload/files/pobir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odontotecnicacoop.it/userfiles/file/56458939387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=must+can+should+exercises+1+eso+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_off0000dae7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAE7 18880 bytes
SHA-256: 60e8bd84a4532294a8bb7b727aa925b2529dc44a24bb61db8587ecb90dc49489
font_01_sfnt_off00010b48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B48 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 1b093eb7de17dba7dc622a4b86a16b26e494b6431f374e70a5b707b6df0d1594
font_02_sfnt_off000124b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1