Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15217afeb8a4b0cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 07:27:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 67e1734b1a5c370a63f0268225dd8c33 SHA-1: eacc5fdce85efe6ac1c403d54064a9eea20a4d70 SHA-256: 15217afeb8a4b0cc9da9ebb9ae71a054f154f52aabf3ea1bc27a5a94bd1510d0
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is classified as malicious by ML models and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or credential harvesting attempt. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of MFA/one-time-code lures and callback phishing indicators further supports a phishing attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=payment+card+generator PDF link annotation
    • http://kuppersbusch.hu/userfiles/files/lisoxisirisebefek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ldksolar-officialliquidation.com/userfiles/files/81405853692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrando.cz/files/file/84598670321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vobibapadumubamodasubuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukupahit.com/contents/files/57584386056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161378a0d50ea7---dupis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c67141eedac9ca16ab200396e4f58ec/veromamojujababat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc580.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-9-6/20210906211339131597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingyilin.org/uploads/file/pekok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/waposisona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--elementy-zczne-kwb98g.pl/media/file/55209993906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladekoservis.ru/files/15335727741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwhopewell.com/uploads/files/52868271829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141b79c865a2---83428032585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunaweb.co/bg_image/files/sotavevuxomekevotumijan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcc-sa.com/motakamel/Ups/files/60412767510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavillonwohlen.ch/userfiles/files/93077295314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wdnederland.nl/file/37387375858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connatlas.com/home/conn/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48052826770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614503c8d54f2---60140557444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/povim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centrons.com/uploaded/file/1856470775613046eea385b.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_off0000d847.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD847 17540 bytes
SHA-256: 42292668f84463d993d0b68cac9b06b4526c58e9cf2e489a62810aa4448dc28e
font_01_sfnt_off00010593.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10593 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011daa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DAA 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 7fddf0607590f11e97f1d449e905a5a13cb5aba16e1ba157e9b399d0fb3f797d