Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 152539a6b03ed96f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-15 17:32:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 119ff4c5efbd03270e25735ca2244650 SHA-1: 7a07478d38b95a0c437c3b6ae85f76917337587f SHA-256: 152539a6b03ed96f1dc1a389291385f0977606e60a9633eb984aa52f755e3db9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://rkdestate.com/userfiles/file/80333004073.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9edde3739---xiliguminadamizuzenavepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9810cea12b---fubolake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewhamd.net/upFiles/ckeditor/files/34329521770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digemnd.com/UserFiles/file/28212453068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/xenow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/657867cb7c1a69d3af6078de3275d6b1/24829479656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e93d714fa03---57174287712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bocion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bemumewisakupujeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strahovka66.ru/userfiles/file/75565408314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709d431be6f---75413549556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5c3fbcfbcf54fe1ad994df16c25f268/92843520657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec568f76fdb66291aa0eb775caf1c667/98608890986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dc351d7efb94965f4f1d8ad6b4c0bcf/25174415556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/40891705426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/xikifafidosudunot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m1d9ft4h8gv2ngopj9fhkhrpfp/putenijuzevoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/getededobapojinopevobone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cda5a5a3c7f---gumaxizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a419e739bac---29298626563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc435bd7a9---20068827368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aadq3ae7aa5k.xn--p1ai/upload/file/69040722405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41a00703983f55bd976b716d95defce1/85520790801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=1864+2+cent+penny+valuePDF 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_off0000edd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDD3 17648 bytes
SHA-256: 34a30fdbeff31832c780d0b8f86dbae9a073d67854c61f77e7d0901d30f7b17e
font_01_sfnt_off00011c6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C6B 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 02899e726d29707e04649877d5347bb92eacc93dc2f6c9c89e089fb0ad855a3f
font_02_sfnt_off00013546.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13546 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1