Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 153a4ce86dfd54fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-10-04 18:32:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 4fa27a05dbecf4609d2760983462a4bc SHA-1: 834058f665df190e0ade04b99ac5e83600ba937d SHA-256: 153a4ce86dfd54fcfa4453a79c69b22d4fa4aed11d1bc5f11bfde448151ed191
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or are part of a link farm strategy. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://alicantea.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/48577626955.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://heritran.vn/uploads/news_file/butovegajigolatosirum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poaglasses.com/uploads/files/202109302346233685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/26292964579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/61804374746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuichi177.com/uploads/files/202109011345235261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myapartment.de/web/editor/files/fasimanakuzigopojaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///29217071398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://egitara.com/upfiles/files/25745184367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southernwashpros.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/75281822568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fisioterapiasuzzara.it/userfiles/files/bojagibowaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interstroy96.ru/uploads/files/57765234401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrabottero.it/userfiles/files/443393938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddu-hk.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vizopikorewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615452f61b08d---50908042029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eternaseguros.net/files/files/tiwowiwiwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkbeauty.vn/luutru/files/96803123213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ffd147e1d5---95310303522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--72ca1bzcdf9cg5df4n5a8cei.com/userfiles/files/sunujuwevezobovivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16159290691c7d---nuzano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awkontrakt.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bewotekitoroxojefujum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapraptti.org/userfiles/file/69797773501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bf37bc858f---41783595211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alirezamirmohammadi.com/images/upload/files/sadifuxesijujuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+add+column+values+in+excelPDF 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_off0000df6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF6D 18420 bytes
SHA-256: 0efa61347e0cc72680d9124382d89de4624a3a00bb5771f3352903e68fc9e28b
font_01_sfnt_off00010ff4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001280b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1280B 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 36c12997e9a5cb787bef70e0a817ff9a7723a6fe1960397e06b08bcb15a06a35

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