Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15445edd5f9a0b53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-08-13 08:45:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7a7c1222391f920853241244e51bfc44 SHA-1: 788e6e9c5518ecbfdb29d84ae3543f77df7758d8 SHA-256: 15445edd5f9a0b530d4092fa3355faca82310f87a4b06b6b973e10ebcd21e74b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lead users to phishing pages or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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://sankofalectureseries.com/clients/a/ae/ae3037074ff26ae8502dacd236f4ced8/File/xiberukuluxixizuwamal.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae128b9a155---8320427160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ae0f4a1c30---82277198890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc7095ad5d---dawexozaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608051e58865d---voramudubirazod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d7281d120---50038426378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/24287197525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75360c2fda01e14d32ef37f72aee830e/37514660393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e33f6e3cdf2d59a5bafd7c9ef58c127/74826332539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charteriraq.ir/basefile/charteriraqir/files/21396833971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8c96f721e9---musipufakadadob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/surodefunuwunareviso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2cexpressdemo.com/userfiles/file/50056477279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/98547326747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskenecologie.nl/files/49960283839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzella.com/userfiles/files/vebigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/gusilavevuvezoxukuraburo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711c4613a13---82590638718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cmi2byac9cdhd0hra6d7bxkwbgj1gch.com/user_img/files/46079006256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102e28bc04a4---zokowajokipovijukigibegaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amanuttarakhand.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50902275649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610678e93a4c7---92717424155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shukokai-voves.fr/userfiles/file/lalifoseralenix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aardbeienfeesten.nl/uploadimages/files/47632650132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798329674a0---54405757146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=tecno+12+18+respuestas+vistas+de+piezas+1PDF link annotation
    • http://mustang.tom.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10090136418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000db43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB43 17748 bytes
SHA-256: 358e21dabe56d8cd3b0d25dc92b5a36dc79d867452f60aa8b03351ba17f35fa6
font_01_sfnt_off0001084f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1084F 11032 bytes
SHA-256: d9a54156da443e1e32aa0d40b41cac610603963cde8960c6eecc282b080a9cd0
font_02_sfnt_off0001224b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1224B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1