Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15a80ea9d0bcca31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 16:25:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a114c325e34e4e6ace817c0fc38336ff SHA-1: f2b79dde22b30e34f81f85cf83c7c4fe1be19b4b SHA-256: 15a80ea9d0bcca31c5712aec54afaedff2eb0b49454e08a51990fd05e543b2fb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The presence of 'invoice' or 'payment' language suggests a lure for phishing or financial scams. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+finance+app+android PDF link annotation
    • http://lavalnerina.it/userfiles/file/8311734963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaushalango.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/70453832877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49e5c750e78fc4ec6b189b4352a72bb6/39556133096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockpapersun.com/upload_mce_image/file/70607832050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pttaccounting.com/userfiles/files/falilagusanabomemevazuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthtecindia.com/userfiles/file/jutofibikibefiwuzipiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161425379a3733---49254740239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhfmjournal.com/data/22/2/55/64/2544879/user/2788947/htdocs/userfiles/file/vukapemaxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reflita.lt/uploads/files/61474222220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/70398786358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-preiss.at/upload_files/files/ruredaziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/damusalibexazidolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narnivet.com/userfiles/files/lusogaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143973835c2d---buwadilatubemanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sporyolu.com/resimler/files/solalododewuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://testagenda1.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/senuvomarugopabuxoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietnam-intraco.com/webroot/img/files/57068840512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c0ef72ba230b0c08c7aad554ded495f/62380288781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_6501D456C6AF39DE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lose-weight.tw/upload/files/mazegabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/zilegulutolesujogunoz.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_off0000f3e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3E1 10620 bytes
SHA-256: ab559c93376839a7bdcf27b6693e6d71339b8f484414ecc06182c31129a91635
font_01_sfnt_off00010c49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C49 17920 bytes
SHA-256: b4803808f8b3f50ab29a72f35d29d3ac1c333cf4861f8519ee1cc80ef086fda5
font_02_sfnt_off00013ac6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AC6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1