Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 154a045a01e8f828…

MALICIOUS

PDF

124.0 KB Created: 2021-07-30 13:21:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: fa9511ade46ec19fea729de5fd784f66 SHA-1: d94979a0541c5715bd0860ebd21de3a1eef219e8 SHA-256: 154a045a01e8f828aa89057fb413ce2a5674982b45da608ae166eaa33dc130f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the presence of numerous external links strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/vonexabudumexebitil.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb52e86cfbb---zuroviropixafutakijixegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/titirewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buyafranchise.org/files/files/63583237942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa5e38823efd664d19b22ee2ce996c14/perizasijexopodolanamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://culturasiapamplona.com/guiarte_userfiles/files/zuvuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58se9c74gcm0u9la5llv8r9kr6/suralerazizorotosizod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benrassam.com/uploads/files/50055770672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokemom2.com/uploads/files/pojagisabibifati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/kibidalusakoserirux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/650f605e85f47172a833ab3dd06deb05/88546207570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichitravel.com/uploads/news_file/ravekofurufijiwulitites.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i287nrlaue8r4kn27guv04bejo/21446811658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capesociety.ca/uploads/files/waraderotufusorum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/59156956271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n3olmg4pejrsgg53dvc9sqpvij/83763225423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160916e9e88f56---64184267926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rbtyutj01.com/userfiles/files/tebowifasepamipebutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/dilupirivomasojumukog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dancleland.com/img/upload/file/zijomotekibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evopizza.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jupakanig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-line.ca/fck_upload/file/91853867999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/891s0btbpijs2i5ugvfb2bo7tu/53087491953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=el+poder+del+metabolismo+frank+suarez+gratis+pdfPDF 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_off000179d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x179D3 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 5f97eeaa37946a1a08955b33dc3169f510415fd13d5b7d3d1d34a2f7b8d2d06a
font_01_sfnt_off000193a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x193A8 21084 bytes
SHA-256: 432f6a338156ae12d0e50537e1a823a1acc2437e8b68d00c4f2e9911b011f550
font_02_sfnt_off0001c905.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C905 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1