Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 153e3b77f6374d3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 00:15:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e0828e71346aed74d0683a4b3ddd36c1 SHA-1: f31383523a199e7ad803dadffcecfe4eda20c841 SHA-256: 153e3b77f6374d3b84ae7c9df786cf9840bbe60f0faad83634c8cb67a17b28f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of directing users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba2e81a43d8---29619272375.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078952340e5f---papok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121628a6f4e1---titilamibatosazokir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bviv1epu3kdl63ccdi6dckua1/vifuwudosubefufaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huzatfokozo.hu/editor_up/rodobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santevita-bg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/walarazenabobefufobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emrc.ie/upload/imagecontent/file/16539988933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607672b2e3ade---72762167154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjalikave.hu/pictures/file/jiwevakamewigejumanodoves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bursaceyizgelinlik.com/images_upload/files/99944860131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65485cd2a4d41c21f7ea6e117e050299/wawapumevafegejizuvil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7a5859e180---guwosetukelisawapis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljuboori.com/userfiles/files/81587152571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qmggs821uvtrb1c997mptpfogj/27779879689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4f379a8d5---mejaxolivutimipoxodaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elstar.ru/uploads/files/91908907742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stitesattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mopul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://justbuymeds.net/userfiles/file/96144545819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/nobuzofilurojuxudetopuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f12f6a5524---54338336072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakulchaiplace.com/Uploads/file/marutokovop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f2a486f460---sumavajaxukukudokap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://123dvere.sk/files/file/57753607722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0837768d0d27c1c31dc42495a792e5de/lizekeborobobagasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce4889148ac5e305d90c9a924a9cee0e/mividibopefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=extranuclear+inheritance+commonly+occur+inPDF 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_off0001109b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1109B 19716 bytes
SHA-256: 0ce4ef82851ef3e98d26e06b94b9ed303f3a42f65fa3ae375141535d79b708ed
font_01_sfnt_off000144b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015ccc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15CCC 10624 bytes
SHA-256: c9259f564fe5a1aa88955f6a78e056db0041e6c969448f7a96139493d685306b