Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 153bffa94c292d94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:08:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8b2d1abbb6285e3cabae94a413d23644 SHA-1: 8bb779b37b01512af3453e5f35c0c42897bb7e3c SHA-256: 153bffa94c292d94b58956cf0e7d06fce52b57c9a2d9bc3b425afd31712212bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting domains. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or further malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://888chji.com/userfiles/files/80029737162.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d5aac61d8---nawokufosugeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a5bdb9d3e---gamepefurapede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/57390521913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34fa7d7c31fb696189ac6df8fe5d1350/6267081534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eff876d0a87d6044ae61244b8685591/kigotasagegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/sigawutavog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakefruit.com/uploads/files/202108161236481276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/vobenikepof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americansemitruckparts.com/d/files/bunifixesataxutivewiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubsahdianagalati.ro/upload/editor/file/19177143007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210611041746104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whitefamilyreunion2020.org/clients/4/4c/4c64578d40ee165aaf486c9a1ef3309b/File/jufurulefadeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d790f21c9ba4e03a956ce048e44cd27b/vuzirelibotelideduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dagvandearchitectuur.be/_files/file/sumaponopuwipak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pfmconsulting.org/survey/userfiles/files/1681587102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/37899605299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designbeginnings.com/upload/file/16218998764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibextrail.com/editor-images/pazobusarazodegijoponani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091cba88c182---4615301528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e964c75327cfdd4f7c12e46fe2c7187/naturuxokomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429210127924086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suksesunited.com/contents//files/69799069871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb7fc47d17---gakanujevodokuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=ricoh+gr3+user+manualPDF 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_off0000e645.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE645 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE5C 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 1c135c99deb8ef097b64a40e3fa5940d48b3eb063a8d5615a718052c613d5713
font_02_sfnt_off00011767.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11767 18448 bytes
SHA-256: 138811dd2543b99a4fe10a31e9199333509cb909db3d0977d8e11daab907fd59