Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 159ceb873d7c7201…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-07-19 05:49:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 837c9d3b6f4edce710af7b721ad50e9a SHA-1: 70ced77762a8728565a17d2fb917dbd87e881cc6 SHA-256: 159ceb873d7c7201613bb13d372f273b62640d7d5fcb5e77f5e7bca928b49fd4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. These links are likely intended to deliver phishing content or further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0eef1b5f18bdc4d8ee55eb207a9a9a5/55094273767.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607815e357182---fuxosono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e1cnvkk94a4r0ptffn16uo0v3/lirolasojoduwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021052009043170554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bvm57jlpn023o58hfj9p51iot2/62033945581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/44705285142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedikal.com/uploads/file/natunusujavelojuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db27832e4d---tokefoxavosazunukeruxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/og5qq3acgqor8m9jtrrt0999i9/13211187817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvatoredivilio.it/userfiles/file/3938776290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahjohnsonsark.com/clients/e/ef/ef24418f2336b9480f3353ee42fa3f58/File/60407719106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609837e630593---karokibasup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kipass.fr/userfiles/file/60074432406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avistravel.ro/userfiles/file/kokolujeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/fisoxojilosodetel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e01b77f06---96238372580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hc6999.com/userfiles/files/wukuwedusef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16f141923a7705b6fab3508abaeb414e/lebixuvubamonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/teposivarixeramu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c173f9b3cab---61742942848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/84203263062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-life.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11468420635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/rokedukewor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7ddce20f3---xajarikazabakiganivirazir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e4f209bacb267a758fe42cb64e558d2/tiwogusojazazudur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=second+of+all+meaningPDF 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_off0000ff80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF80 18056 bytes
SHA-256: e2af6b1c7bb5f674608348bbf734878a88d2960f38b94f4e264993764fda5d8f
font_01_sfnt_off00012ed7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ED7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000146ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146EE 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 343ad33e0e1eac914a60e7888dfe192bcac7524c318275c80970596d8f6ead39