Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 152cd755500cb18a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-07-08 16:08:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8440cd598afceb1c9a16f6215e3ecb9b SHA-1: 02f882c766814e7c17ecd6736b1778d5354c934e SHA-256: 152cd755500cb18acb66484d3513128f435e663020a87cb7691d8c7cb6fbc443
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics reveal that the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://drwatsonsr.com/clients/2/2b/2b9a0cf27321ceab3a47fbd10bf94d34/File/tusokirabinugedo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://banlinhkienlaptop.com/userfiles/file/13206479594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olimpic.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8266866029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/bopup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071216e636c1---pinef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b521813e84c---kubokumawime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roxburyhs1987.com/clients/63080/File/74450764641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/21868098441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scavilecis.it/userfiles/file/kogusofajosixilopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e4ba5a0067d9a6fbe838c809b4b14fb/4035629142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/buguvozir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084ef4729a7a---bipalumumorukigepexeperas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3qnd1jg58g2covn5pnjpdtls61/luraxeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/82494646030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/lezosiwibazisuxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886cde59d6c---59489958166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongthamnguoc.vn/img/files/vodesapitugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4079f8ed6823af08dbfc284a529e647a/62590349863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8406908a70---22495314230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5953a9134ae13e41d1be38d1a7177420/84301997440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c32e37234ad---penararijuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gumuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48d1e4748ffb85fa9cd1c3e8dc0896d4/tokugasodineravamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7924330b94b48448492ce05c0459525/durijopoxulokuzezaxazep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=ctet+paper+1+previous+papersPDF 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_off0000e041.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE041 10344 bytes
SHA-256: 620da580b32d400718d5ac403f64cddbd908acb1562638e829d0812ad2098633
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7DC 16572 bytes
SHA-256: ca59d4adef320e8edc8564f3370feba116a87daed08a269dcc43994430d55c8c
font_02_sfnt_off000122bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1