Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15792a5d3a1bd5b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-08-11 20:06:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c24bf1843cc59da2ab1a23673bcdfda3 SHA-1: aea44b005bfe7d817230b1b64824365ed6dcbfaf SHA-256: 15792a5d3a1bd5b8af9fbaa5862f7dfabea0f15be16d4b9bb93f0fcb9ee86b44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, indicating it is designed to redirect users to malicious content. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature, likely serving as a lure for initial access.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abeff1fb241bc6bb35c4085053dbb366/porasepujasigep.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tp-pos.com/uploads/image/files/xariboxenevorelono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phuongdonggolf.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/4682088203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/14732589858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd5a1ce0a4380ead123011d357643dec/73253701430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/foxukajuzatapilej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a14609fbd---xudeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r4179s33h598aiknjrlf4ks94v/gobemebugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakajima-ya.com/upload/save_image/files/88961946042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0fedcf408ce3d00615bbaad6aafdfd2/48836864111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://styliststudios.com/imagesTE/file/kedevanasifujujokegotiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansonseatery.com/uploads/files/38281278688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burstallconrad.com/editor_files/file/dowoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhitienvuong.com/uploads/files/rabenorameresiwaserug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2ca392bf3b2122caf51ec9beb1530f8/83609735326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sovaimm.it/userfiles/files/valomigufukibupisobowum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/60077480895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpengineers.info/admin/userfiles/file/nunozedifipazule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/guginakokijemejakugugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/tipopeneminilad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=blender+2.79+manual+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_off0000e922.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE922 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010134.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10134 17136 bytes
SHA-256: bbcb9091480bc64290d4d68f5f6d5644b4fac1e2b1389b75b8e9cd0c86d86b0f
font_02_sfnt_off00012dc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DC7 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 3eeb5a446960a2adafa777d676f8fe6e241ee603fd21f38bf80283483210fd35