Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 15a98ef302b6d555…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 10:43:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 1ccc6fb81eaf2149bab1dad49a79e425 SHA-1: b1c3dec0b9c3049d60faae375e4a4b3e2088411b SHA-256: 15a98ef302b6d555c7c28d4222b1eef072fdd50e68db646d332b5fca20af7ec2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://ghioroiu.ro/sites/default/files/file/wewugi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://morecoredesign.com/images/imageUps/files/61238189258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trellisdundee.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa95038f4437a55b69e597047c4a00c6/nuvupajilurexizujepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210601/file/16225168771662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/laoloesl9cpe107vobtnbgp45l/zudulululerowuxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rqub5vb9vj8l35q5cmtu191fhs/77720848731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blagoustroystvo24.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75179575996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ural-aiti.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48871953752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/72179951982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/982d09ed02e8c6156000268cc0e2fd42/matidej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a321e7cc71---bawisuliraxubifumuduli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fa338be15074c604d885ec0f976c075/nupukejejuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be1913a4a0c---nazij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/75114705174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresottawa.ca/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/zelitenebarosewakej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d23e63f2cae---kudebek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c16432721---tijexogif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bbcae2ded5---zebabazusizuvexonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/82256107892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89f2251ad85989c6d035e1e095d6fd0a/jafixizuralulalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d429a5b015a---78085979977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americanewbie.com/userfiles/file/90924042943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608687233ddfb---lotivijira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/88831810078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+change+manual+windows+to+powerPDF 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_off0000efb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB6 16868 bytes
SHA-256: c1de70d9bf1eeb2a97ea6858e65fd47c9b3c75f9fbd101c37e5ce7c44d5d5076
font_01_sfnt_off00011ba9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BA9 11140 bytes
SHA-256: a9ad616671933be0bc853c1aeb97808571040c6ed1aad0dc0c50179527d5e719
font_02_sfnt_off00013547.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13547 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1