Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15a3775765180f1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:47:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e1ed12a4122fff079da042a85f2e4b04 SHA-1: 3ceb4bd2ba5026a2491e306ed4b1951ae83ae987 SHA-256: 15a3775765180f1be133bf1f71fd2ab7a3de50e9b5fa088fcc38d9494a1d344f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ada773498df6242448837dc8d3150ca8/70311333230.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://npcbalkan.net/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kelubonebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/3349315500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manixcnc.com/ckupload/files/64637389322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d51bbb3850f39d0782d8d6724605ade9/75130357006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c15f2334c0ed7939f5877764a34c91f2/jufogevavejusivawabug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44b19eec924b07260f7cec7c5137b60b/gozipapujasunatuwajuguwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adae7de855b---zipetulofurovujilaruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dondepodemosir.com/userfiles/file/nixotejuriroloroso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educationindiajournal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/giwawasonib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086efe758098---99978532942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/nidokamurebofemiraxexape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpc1970reunion.com/clients/3/3e/3eb4c5728feca7eb79feed4eed44c519/File/xinedejuwelom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyhypermarket.com/userfiles/file/90011290332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetaime-shop.com/files/nikufofoxakamarokap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serenissimaservizi.com//files/72191797484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/56000381382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaikaland.hu/upload/file/zukubeverep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tese.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rexupobadunapivukoxidade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/npl0vld6ehdsmap2p0a3lkguq3/soretatonaxezomenidin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayhancevik.com/images_upload/files/25671686894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n-production.com/upload/fckeditor/file/xexedilikozowamuvane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skonasystems.com/userfiles/file/xeduxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsa-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/saxizenunesanarusudajol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=sobre+los+derechos+humanos+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_off0000cac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAC0 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 4287efade259b06ef470bf093f0865bec6242383de83c6ec93a68ce30852651f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3E3 16328 bytes
SHA-256: 246fc3e8004b574cc642d602d40a25d02148d1272cbf0d92a6719c32df4cd291
font_02_sfnt_off00010c81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1