Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15718ad6d3015f7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-28 23:06:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: bcdaa71ac5b22b593e009b511c3c658d SHA-1: 3f95e9e0fc2968ccbcd1cbca27601a35e5f63706 SHA-256: 15718ad6d3015f7a08c6dc2095849d734954132bf20bb6e2d538e81d7a57fd6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of 'utm_term' in URLs further supports a phishing or SEO-based lure strategy.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=car+sale+receipt+template+qld PDF link annotation
    • https://idosekotthonaveresegyhaz.hu/files/files/45850100070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uudanbury.life/files/file/sevasinuxomovejepexate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134d4797a86f---59876514732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostfoundglobal.com/userfiles/file/velarigusepiwazikoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serramentisiciliano.it/userfiles/files/kenazovakiwumagedofujaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarkar.ie/userfiles/file/vojabisusizowoligomijazul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v7tvg4kqti1bc4f101f92icpul/fapuramitokigofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613105b63dcd1---66181365712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utcsp.rustyramone.com/uploads/files/69712732941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattingtoemrerogsnedker.dk/userfiles/file/51700042398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gurolmumcu.com/userfiles/file/letukomaxanulopekedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basundharamart.com/userfiles/file/33314024304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/kopapejoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.florentmaussion.net/userfiles/File/kirabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runwellconsulting.eu/file/file/ledavuxigujaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khojedu.net/userfiles/file/xarawuniruvagonamiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/tuwaxurisaxejurup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwcasino.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kizimuzerulexuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voziky-paletove.cz/mctree.cz/pictures/other/files/21954417569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoangeli.it/userfiles/files/56845045606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yemany.com/yemfiles/files/wagujefebinuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blogsma.com/files/tifinegapabopozonoxipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springgalleryng.com/Images_upload/files/76653763233.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_off0000b086.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB086 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c89d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC89D 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 3fbc5a242257e828e95f3dd104d589f37bd5acaee706822a1504aea44c57fb20
font_02_sfnt_off0000e0b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B1 16008 bytes
SHA-256: 11d75a333a233b7e29135bd70e0d775c55154c98f5d85e136897c4600c31d697