Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15209c0486fac263…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-12 17:21:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: ce152c9785cb067b542c34bc80855a58 SHA-1: 2e9c5f6736f6ce4af9b39f96dcecafe43d1d536d SHA-256: 15209c0486fac2636f84507c64b50dc83a640346b3f8e6d2c23fa10172a2cb60
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Static analysis revealed numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicates a pattern of using such links, likely to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=get+free+instagram+comments PDF link annotation
    • http://rentappli.com/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/phpimage/phpimage/upload/images/file/kedajofobusalumuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eng.sut.ac.th/tce/2016/administrator/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pawuvivujalerakomekan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5jqgdg1rsgfifesgmkd2iag6k/linisolewodesalotox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdermusavirlik.net/userfiles/file/24927901565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d956033961---dunasimij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khamtribacninh.com/images/files/43108615533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioturina.com/userfiles/files/16476916502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/70611835358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megamento.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/pojego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcwenhua.com/uploadimg/file/16309107601504480337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c03df1e3c72eb282c2e66f0e6421ae1c/35070731745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613701ce28218---kojazami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/21141207531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmtechvn.com/webroot/img/files/vejiwupofiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maraulsan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38310358645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jubileejec.com/userfiles/files/jubovusibaxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huanghecables.com/d/files/22098783620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjmfgxfollow.morefriendship.com/upload/files/36390325054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonestudio.pl/files/upload/file/42175671465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gad-elhak.com/userfiles/file/nusezisiniloli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136a9303afbd---28736359263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martonelektro.hu/files/file/24065024910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://school19-zav.ru/userfiles/file/gifaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b6bdc8415---jaxonizelujozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evola.it/userfiles/files/95532255634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzhangqin.com/uploadfile/files/28415671193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rancholasmonturaspremios.com/campannas/file/20210763998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanlitech.com/files/files/83982279839.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_off0000e211.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE211 17032 bytes
SHA-256: 437112b5dd83b4f7f7cea87696dafe538495bfdb57e4c7afcb43497e6d49e6b3
font_01_sfnt_off00010e38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E38 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001264f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1264F 10672 bytes
SHA-256: a268c2f5515113a6e339e2a40858ad163c03c08c700d3c6bd3cc34df876ef105