Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 151e013d0180155d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 12:03:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: dc456c380818742b18febc281b917780 SHA-1: a9d4ddf9616a68465faf766b34c72cc7cd1e455b SHA-256: 151e013d0180155d0b899292938f998a10922f8a0f5b7e25fa2ad10ac6d5fa5b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate a high likelihood of malicious intent, potentially involving JavaScript for exploitation or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://nomaquito-travel.com/editor-images/12272944140.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072669fc8be1---lerofolowobavafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50b6oegnlc836rtjubtli0ce46/zisubafaxaxomosajodez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca3a66d7f7---depisibutulabasunudobuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782d13a5e08---82416154130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160babb1c77f57---39338340680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/verurukonuturijub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/lonogobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k2r55gi0g65rtoro77n862rdt1/tazeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607971da5b1f3---16619304133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/71493117098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91492efb3114e9ed245060372553dd34/sitagaxatikopapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d5870806e---12206776293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protrialse.eu/files/files/mokoloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b64de634e94---kafavakebej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicupclose.com/clients/f/f7/f7c291dfb329fbc33054893077acf627/File/78341782952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoyisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91664667987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f004142ebcd5e62e8495d6d5f99dddf/30729628809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecuqlcuim27s37ilvphb7j152q/pizigidazobukopako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608108f253fff---dakezusixuvafixajopavik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricount.cz/UserFiles/File/dubunajukofira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autopratichesas.it/file/9880575112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3dd6cf21c7---lowonefuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f758fae4d908875ac78cbaec0438d4f/jexafolomaranaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moyamoya.center/images/hand_uploaded/files/9449689985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=comptroller+office+near+mePDF 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_off0000fde8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000115fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115FA 16652 bytes
SHA-256: 394f3a448697604a03367c8299df65a9e33b3bb07fb5c14b6919310f7bde7d19
font_02_sfnt_off000140ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140EF 10504 bytes
SHA-256: b97469dd7030ccb2c303f13d078d53bdf82ea19fee750a52993292b47b65f39d